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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Planck length is not like universal pixels. It's just where current models say there's little reason to look at smaller things, since it's kind of like worrying about which flecks of paint are coming off a car in a racing video game. It's just ... so irrelevant as to be ignorable.

It's nigh impossible to have any energy that could interact with us or atoms on the Planck length scale that wouldn't just collapse in to a black hole. It's not so much any observation of real-world pixelation, and more that even to atoms, it's very tiny.

[–] antidote101@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your comment about current models, known energy types, and universal pixels seems to ignore the post's topic (which isn't really about known models or energy types).

A better way to disregard the post would be to just point out that solar systems aren't that big in terms of scales of the universe, and that there's no indication of any charges, electrons, or valance layers about.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not responding to the comic. I'm responding to you talking about the Planck length. I'm not disregarding the comic but making a tangential comment. Please try to keep up.

[–] antidote101@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Your loss! 🤷