Re: A question of discrete space-time.

in article 1117224187.712096.271970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mike
Helland at mobydikc@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/27/2005 16:48:

> Ed Hanna wrote:
>
>> Does this make sense, or am I being overly simplistic?
>
> I think you're being overly simplistic. For example, your checkerboard
> looks like:
>
>> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Position
>> 1 |_o_|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|
>> 2 |___|_x_|___|___|___|___|___|___|
>> 3 |___|___|_x_|___|___|___|___|___|
>> 4 |___|___|___|_x_|___|___|___|___|
>> 5 |___|___|___|___|_x_|___|___|___|
>> 6 |___|___|___|___|___|_x_|___|___|
>> 7 |___|___|___|___|___|___|_x_|___|
>> 8 |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|_x_|
>> Time
>
>
> And you say the discreteness of space-time is what implies the speed limit.
>
> Whereas I could just as easily do:
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Position
> 1 |_o_|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|
> 2 |___|___|_x_|___|___|___|___|___|
> 3 |___|___|___|___|_x_|___|___|___|
> 4 |___|___|___|___|___|___|_x_|___|
> 5 |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|
> 6 |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|
> 7 |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|
> 8 |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|
> Time
>
> Demonstrating that the speed limit can be broken in discrete space-time.

not meaning to support this hypothesis (could be crackpot for all i know),
but if the position cell width were 1 Planck Length and the time cell width
were 1 Planck Time, would that not imply a speed limit of c and support the
top diagram over the bottom?

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