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I’m giving you a hypothesis about the reason why the Planck length exists as a constant.

Below Planck length there is no length, time, mass, or temperature.

All of those things are given “reality” by our mental process.



It's not a constant, any more than the meter or the foot. It's just part of a unit system that happens to be convenient for carrying out certain calculations.


I have questions about your understanding. Or maybe it is a problem with my communication. There is a planck constant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant


Planck's constant is not the Planck length.


The Planck length ℓ P is defined as: ℓ P = ℏ G c 3 ≈ 1.616 255 ( 18 ) × 10 − 35 m , where is the speed of light, G is the gravitational constant, and ħ is the reduced Planck constant.

I know they’re not the same. But they obviously depend on each other, no?


> But they obviously depend on each other, no?

Sure, but so does twice the Planck length. Also half the Planck length. Also 86.173491 times the Planck length. And so on.


The Planck length and Planck's constans are both named after Max Planck. That doesn't mean they're the same thing. The Max Planck Institutes are also named after Planck, but they are neither lengths nor constants.


That is certainly a hypothesis, but there is no evidence for it.


Hey, I’m no Einstein, but even he had hypothesis that took decades to be shown evidence to prove they were true.

I don’t know how someone is supposed to come up with evidence before a hypothesis, but if you have a new understanding of the scientific process Please let me know.


> I don’t know how someone is supposed to come up with evidence before a hypothesis

Sure, this is usually how science works. A good example is the famous Michelson–Morley experiment which was performed in 1887 and was a key piece of evidence directly inspiring Einstein's theory of special relativity in 1905.

The way science usually progresses is that there is some piece of evidence which current theories can't explain or deal with. That prompts the development of new theories, which make new predictions, which are then tested in further experiments.


What are ridiculous thing to say. The Michaelson Mosley experiment was sent experiment based on the hypothesis that something called the Luminiferous aether existed.

So someone had a hypothesis, and they tested it. I have a hypothesis, go out and test it if you wish.




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