From: Anders Sandberg (nv91-asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Dec 19 1996 - 09:29:13 MST
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Chris Hind wrote:
> I've read that Planch's Length is a billion billion times smaller than an
> electron. How small is it in comparison to a photon?
I don't know if any theory predicts any size of a photon (or the electron
for that matter). But of course it has a certain wavelength, which is much
larger than the Plank length.
> And theoretically if
> quarks are contructed of yet smaller particles, could they have the
> potential to pass through planch's length and allow communication by
> leaping up to higher dimensions and working around the FTL barrior. Do I
> know what I'm talking about?
Yes, but remember that it is likely that the Plank scale is rather
chaotic; the neat riemannian manifold structure probably dissolves into
quantum chaos, discrete geometry or pregeometry of some kind. But if FTL
is going on, it would work fine here since the speed of light is rather
undefined at this scale.
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