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Comment by ozb

> integers exist

Mostly as an abstraction on top of a continuous wavefunction/quantum field

> Spacetime ends up being discretizable

As far as I know this is speculative and usually assumed by physicists to be false; it's definitely not a required feature of quantum mechanics per se, and as far as I know not of any other well-accepted theory.

parent ozb 1 year ago

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