r/interestingasfuck • u/Puzzleheaded_Web5245 • 3d ago

Views of pluto through the years r/all

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u/Archon-Toten 3d ago

If space quest taught me anything, it's space is pixelated.

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u/CallMeDrWorm42 3d ago

I know you're joking, but space is un-ironically pixelated. Sorta. If we think of a pixel in a game like space quest as being the smallest length of a thing that can be represented, we have the Planck length in real life. It is the smallest unit of length theoretically possible. Nothing can be shorter than the Planck length. You could think of it as being the "resolution" of reality.

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u/jngjng88 3d ago

I love this analogy.

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u/alienwalk 2d ago

Space is quantized. Well, space-time is quantized, so there is also a shortest possible time span.