What is the Planck Length, why’s it significant, and how could we even detect something that small?

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What is the Planck Length, why’s it significant, and how could we even detect something that small?

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We don’t know of it is significant, it’s just the smallest theoretical measurable length. We can’t detect anything nearly that small, the last I read our technology remains 20 orders of magnitude away.