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on July 16, 2016
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Does 1+2+3+... Really Equal -1/12?
Length of the coast of Britain?
dskloet
on July 16, 2016
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That assumes details can be arbitrarily small, which Planck refuted.
Dylan16807
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We don't have to get anywhere near the Plank scale. If you trace the 'edges' of atoms you'll end up with a finite multiple of a meter-scale or kilometer-scale measurement. And that's the end of the fractal.
jakobegger
on July 17, 2016
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Also, at an atomic scale, the word "coast" doesn't really make sense any more...
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Refuted? I thought that hypothesis was far from proven.
lake99
on July 16, 2016
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Not Planck, but by a few others after him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_spacetime
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