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Not only that, but that a sub-atomic particle can generate a different work every Planck time, and store them all.

Had to find a way to keep the framerate from dropping below Planck time levels.

The planck length is simply the base length when you set up your units such that c, G, and h are all 1.

Essentially there is one bit per Planck Area, so 10^66 bits/m^2.

Individual particles can't interact with each other at the Planck frequency.

If the elements are discrete - and they almost certainly are, because of the Planck limit - there will be some moment where an element changes state.

Consider the incredible amount of science coming out of projects like this ($600M), New Horizons (750M) or the Planck telescope ($750M), compared to the cost of the international space station (~$100B).

No physical process can happen faster than the Planck frequency (the frequency of light at which a single photon would have enough energy to form a black hole), about 10^43 Hz.

Basically you assume that each elementary particle is a computer operating at a clock rate of the Planck frequency and multiply by the time between the big bang and the heat death of the universe.

The number of elementary particles times the number of Planck times between the big bang and the heat death of the universe puts an upper bound on the number of states that such a computer could enumerate.

BTW, there's a simpler way to calculate a physical upper bound on computation (though this method yields a bound that is not as tight): model every elementary particle in the universe as a state machine that advances at the Planck frequency (i.e.

It is possible that the Planck length will end up being significant in the way described upthread, but given our scientific record it seems somewhat more likely that such an idea will end up looking similar to the theory about atoms being the smallest unit of matter.

Because a) it reduces the direct impact of oppression, and b) it means that Planck's "new generation" will pick up the new truths.

One of the main motivating features of Supersymmetry is to reconcile this difference by providing a mechanism by which the Higgs mass "naturally" becomes much less than the Planck mass.

Others believe that this mass is surprising because of "naturalness" issues -- the idea that this mass should have been more closely related to other fundamental constants, namely the Planck mass.

The lack of knowledge of the details of the mechanism or explanation for something which is nevertheless an element of the best model does not suddenly make the incompletely-explained thing supernatural; otherwise, things like the Planck constant are "supernatural".

And there are only a few adjustable parameters (particle/nucleus masses, Planck's constant, and less than a dozen others).

To me, there's simply a Planck's constant foundation that prevents infinite regression just as much in terms of information as it does with radiation, etc.

Germany 1871-1914 with Planck, Einstein, Röntgen, to name just a few) I have some ideas, but would welcome your comments/sources...