[FOM] Could spacetime be discrete?

[Alexander Zenkin]

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"bcc" to Alasdair Urquhart urquhart at cs.toronto.edu

Alasdair Urquhart urquhart at cs.toronto.edu wrote:

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Richard Haney raises the question as to whether spacetime could be
discrete.  I am not sure what this means, but if it means that there is
a minimum length, this appear inconsistent with special relativity. 
Could somebody elucidate this point?
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"One has to find a possibility to avoid the continuum (together with
space and time) altogether. But I have not the slightest ideas what kind
of elementary concepts could be used in such a theory."

Letter from Albert Einstein to David Bohm, October 28, 1954

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Alexander Zenkin