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PBS Space Time: Season 2021

2021x17 Can Space Be Infinitely Divided?

  • 2021-06-16T16:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 13m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, Talk Show
How many times can I half the distance between my hands? Assume perfect coordination and the ability to localize my palms to the quantum level. 15 halvings gets them to within a cell’s width. 33 to within a single atom, 50 and they’re a proton’s width apart. Half the distance 115 times and they’re a single Planck-length apart - 1.6x10^-35 meters. Surely we can keep going - .8, .4, .2 x10^-35 m? Bizarrely, those distances might not even exist in any meaningful way.
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