{"id":71649,"date":"2021-08-07T06:10:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T10:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71649"},"modified":"2021-08-02T00:48:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T04:48:28","slug":"can-space-be-infinitely-divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71649","title":{"rendered":"Can Space Be Infinitely Divided?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space-Time Discord! <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnZKdFlZU0dhcGd3ZTEwTGdXRHBJVlFIRmo4d3xBQ3Jtc0ttbTdjc19iS3RRWk1KMTloc0ItN1NscS0wUThJNXpVcW9qV1BON0ZTY1htWUh5X0ltNXREaW9CeHlTMWttcGp5aVN0cVhUd1paUVd4dlVIcjgzZE95NTRUcUJKRmU1SFJpTHlvLUdZZS1TUG9qbmlJUQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fpbsspacetime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/snp-GvNgUt4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">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 get them to within a cell\u2019s width. 33 to within a single atom, 50, and they\u2019re a proton\u2019s width apart. Half the distance 115 times and they\u2019re a single Planck-length apart &#8211; 1.6&#215;10^-35 meters. Surely we can keep going &#8211; .8, .4, .2 x10^-35 m? Bizarrely, those distances might not even exist in any meaningful way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Check out the Space-Time Merch Store <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqblJPcFpNVmU4M0tVSU43UjlybmxlT09pOFl2QXxBQ3Jtc0ttSVJkSkdmejBKY2Z6dHVsRnJOT0owdGNVaWhlUUlkM0VRTEpzTmU4SHE0SjJnMFN4dFZRSEttV2htZnQ1SDNQaFNQakRpOTUzcklPZWZRcnFaczVDX3h3bnQzLUU3cktxUFhhOHBPMGhYSnRfdnd6OA&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbsspacetime.com%2Fshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements! <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWd6blpvRGtKRzdUVHVpVHJ6cmpYcnZvNXFBd3xBQ3Jtc0tscXpGZnBNYVJPbGtsZFBwMFU2VEVrZERqWU9aMkpkSjN0TXpJQmoxb1Z4STNibE02b19nTVhNcENPNngxZ1VRLUV3MWRQVFRGLTJCek1qOHJYcnppS1VwT1FhYzFTakZld0dOU25iUkxiVnFEc2UtZw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fmailchi.mp%2F1a6eb8f2717d%2Fspacetime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/1a6eb8f2717d\/space&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space-Time Discord! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime 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 get them to within a cell\u2019s width. 33 to within a single atom, 50, and they\u2019re a proton\u2019s width apart. Half the distance 115 times and they\u2019re a single Planck-length apart &#8211; 1.6&#215;10^-35 meters. Surely we can keep going &#8211; .8, .4, .2 x10^-35 m? Bizarrely, those distances might not even exist in any meaningful way. Check out the Space-Time Merch Store https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements! https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/1a6eb8f2717d\/space&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[97,551,853],"class_list":["post-71649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edu","tag-education","tag-education-saturday","tag-space-time"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71650,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71649\/revisions\/71650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}