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I understand energy comes in discrete packets, is there evidence that the same may be true of space or time?

 

Yes we have evidence that energy can do but also evidence that it can come in any value, depending upon circumstances.

 

Does this affect you question?

 

Professor Majid of London University edited a recent Cambridge University book on this very subject, with many famous contributors.

 

On Space and Time

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Space-Time-Canto-Classics-Shahn-Majid/1107641683

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There is currently no evidence that space-time is quantised. A lot of theoreticians think it should be.

 

There have been a number of experiments to test the idea, for example: http://www.uchicago.edu/features/experiment_probes_nature_of_space_and_time/

 

If you search for "quantised space-time" you will probably find others. (If you find one with a positive result, let us know!)

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Yes we have evidence that energy can do but also evidence that it can come in any value, depending upon circumstances.

 

Does this affect you question?

 

Professor Majid of London University edited a recent Cambridge University book on this very subject, with many famous contributors.

 

On Space and Time

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Space-Time-Canto-Classics-Shahn-Majid/1107641683

 

You mean that it can come in some value other than these discrete packets? Like an in between amount?

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