A question I need answered.

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Originally Posted by Reincarnate

whoa

I suppose it hasn't been objectively proven that space-time is absolutely discontinuous. For all practical purposes though, QM is pretty clear. Without getting into a heated semantic debate in physics, my point was more or less here:

It doesn't say that things can't be smaller than Planck length -- it just says that beyond this point, we can no longer probe them

Case in point. Reality is for all practical and material purposes discontinuous as we know it beyond this point. Therefore, thinking of points within points at this scale is, well, rather imaginative. Also, simply add what ledwix said to this and you have the point I am trying to make.

Like I mentioned, Zeno's Paradox is confusing to people because they think that adding up infinitely many pieces means that you're somehow arriving at an unachievable infinity even though we're talking about a finite distance. Yes, we could think of chopping up distance (or time!) into smaller and smaller units -- and we could think about doing this forever -- this doesn't mean the act of traversing distance or time needs to also take forever (which is how we incorrectly arrive at the confused conclusion that we should be unable to move and that time should stand still).

I completely get what you're saying. However, you're addressing the paradox and solving it by simply declaring it a non-paradox, which is...fine. It mean, it's right, because it's not a paradox if you treat it as a finite problem.

You just don't provide an answer to the fundamental cognitive problem the paradox provides, which is what qqwref is getting at.