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The Middle of Everything Ever

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The Smallest Conceivable Thing Is a Unit of the Size of Space

The smallest conceivable thing is a Unit of the size of space at which spaces thought to lose its integrity Integrity Something called the plank length This is a pretty far out thing. No one has experience with this in their daily life, but emptiness The ordinary space between your hands when you hold your hands apart before you clap them together Emptiness itself has a fabric to it and at the scale of the plank length space would be made of grains of space just Dot yeah dots kind of pixelated and what we don't know is are they neat little pixels like checkerboard squares Or is it that space itself starts to kind of rip apart? We have reason to think that because in quantum theory everything

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