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[โ€“] doctordevice@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Planck scale units aren't known or typically assumed to be minimum units. They're just the units that come out of combining some fundamental constants and are thought to represent a scale where the effects of quantum gravity have too much effect to be ignored. They just represent a theoretical limit to the validity of our current models.

Human knowledge will continue to push these boundaries as long as humans still exist, but it's arrogant to think our current human limitation is a universal limitation.

[โ€“] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I oversimplified it but it's the scale where the data doesn't matter anymore. It isn't a minimum distance or time, but it is a minimum distance or time that actually matters. It is in no way evidence of a simulation, but a simulation could be expected to have things like that, because infinite precision would require infinite data.