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		messe on July 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits Reality, as best we understand it, is very much not discrete, and space is not split into chunks at the Planck length. A discrete space-time would likely mean observable Lorentz-violations.

Lichtso on July 15, 2024 [–]

Discrete spacetime does not necessitate a regular and nicely ordered tesselation, it could be pure chaos or be non-geometric.

Before we thought that energy, mass and matter were completely continuous and that turned out to be wrong.

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