I’m not really into physics and what not, I just know the bare minimum. I’m a law student, so please believe I’m like 5 when it comes to this discipline of education.
Why is the Planck Length the “smallest thing in the world?” Or at least I hope I asked it right.
I’ve read that you cannot go smaller than this length, otherwise blackholes will occur and the world doesn’t make sense anymore.
Could you explain the main steps to understanding “length” and it’s relationship to energy before diving into the planks length? This concept is super interesting and I really want to understand it. From what I have read, understanding this concept is broken down like this:
(1) What is a wavelength actually?
(2) How are wavelengths and energy related?
(3) Why is the Plancks Length the smallest thing in the universe?
(4) What happens when something is smaller than a Planck Length?
Thanks!
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“Why is the Planck Length the “smallest thing in the world?”
its not, its the smallest distance that we can measure based on our current understanding of Physics, based on this we just accept that anything below this distance doesn’t really possess any notable properties regarding energy, therefore is not detectable with current methods that wouldn’t interfere with the experiment.
basically attempting ot measure a distance smaller than planck’s length with our current method would place too much mass/energy in a small space causing it to collapse into a black hole(which shouldn’t be a thing based on your understanding of physics, so its said that distance below plancks’s length physics sorta break down as nothing with such small perceived mass shouldn’t possess that sort of gravity).
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