Does going smaller and smaller go on for infinity?
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Dan say: It really depends on what you're talking about. If you're just talking about numbers, yeah, numbers will go on and on. If you're talking about physical objects, we pretty much stop our knowledge at the Planck length. There's much debate if the universe if granular in natural, if size has any meaning at those scales, or if it just keeps going and going. No one really knows...or even has good guesses.
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nineteenthly say: No. There's a limit called the Planck Length which is 100 million million million times smaller than a proton.
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Ronald 7 say: It sure does
Consider this
You can make a Pitcher of beer last forever this way
Drink half of it
Got that ??
Then drink 1/4 of it
And then 1/8th of it, then 1/16th
1/32nd, 1/64th , 1/ 128th 1/ 256th and so on
What is Infinity anyway ??
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goring say: when we divide by zero its not infinity,because when you divide a pie by zero we are dividing by not any thing;hence the pie does not change
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Bill say: Adding that the Planck Length is still a finite number.
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say: 1. Brains being used...
2. White penis.
3. Population of turtles.
4. Amount of food to go around on planet Earth.
5. Size of a phone or media file.
6. Amount of gasoline left. Nonrenewable resource.
7. The glaciers in a polar regions.
8. The distance sun from Earth or Earth from Pluto. Not calling Pluto anything but it's name like an elm tree despite it's size or location on Earth.
9. What else turns smaller with time... How much time an individual person has left to live.
10. Smaller coverage for medical insurance... Health coverage. Who is covered and what is covered. As food lowers amount of total quality of Earth has.
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Tom S say: No, there is a limit to small known as the Planck scale, or length. At least with current understanding and definitions.
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someg say: No. They tried that with Russian dolls. When they finally got down to the size of an atom, they split the doll in half and blew up the whole city.
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Adullah M say: Think of the gravitational force between two bodies, no matter how far its being apart, its g. force never become zero and would continue to be infinity.
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Jeffrey K say: No. An atom is the smallest unit of an element. Neutrons, protons, and electrons are the smallest observable particles. Quarks are the smallest components of protons and neutrons. And the Plank length 10^-33 cm, is the smallest unit of space. There can not be anything smaller. Quantum gravity theory is needed to explain why.
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CarolOklaNola say: No. It goes down to a Planck length and quarks. There 17 types of quarks.
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Lyar say: The concept of infinity explodes my mind. Back in school, I had a teacher point out that not only are there an infinite amount of whole numbers, but also an infinite amount of fractional numbers between every two whole numbers. So our entire numerical system is literally nothing but an infinite series of infinities.
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Acetek say: no. you cannot get any smaller than a Planck Length
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