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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 11:57 PM
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17. No. Time is the same.
Edited on Fri Sep-01-06 12:05 AM by longship
But beyond a lower limit, time makes no sense, since the universe is not in any way measurable below that limit. Causality breaks down. Below the Planck limit there is no before or after. Events happen without cause, without effect, without any way to measure them.

That's just the way things are. So stay the fuck away from that Planck limit. ;-)

By the way, the Planck limit is expressed in the value "h-bar" which equals 6.626068 x 10^34 m^2 kg/s, or in other words,

0.0000000000000000000000000000000006626068 m^2 kg/s.

That's a very small number. It's the same number in the Heisenberg equations (small case h, with a slash through it--called h-bar).

on edit: BTW, these quantum effects are not individually measurable, however, their accumulated effects are measurable using physical consequences of the effects. Some quantum experiments are pretty damned peculiar. But the effects are some of the most precisely measured in all of science. If QM doesn't work, your computer wouldn't work.
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