[–] corvuscorax 14y ago ↗ AKA the Planck timehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time [–] blasdel 14y ago ↗ Indeed, and Jacques was reasonably close — Planck frequency is 1.855 × 10^43 hertz
[–] blasdel 14y ago ↗ Indeed, and Jacques was reasonably close — Planck frequency is 1.855 × 10^43 hertz
[–] shabble 14y ago ↗ Permutation City[1] by Greg Egan is one particular (hard SF) look at this idea.I'm pretty sure there are others, it's quite a common trope.In the (hopefully) real world, there was something fairly recently about possible violations of the Planck length: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110630111540.ht... (news wrapper around http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1068 )[1] http://www.amazon.com/Permutation-City-Greg-Egan/dp/00610548...
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I'm pretty sure there are others, it's quite a common trope.
In the (hopefully) real world, there was something fairly recently about possible violations of the Planck length: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110630111540.ht... (news wrapper around http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1068 )
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Permutation-City-Greg-Egan/dp/00610548...