On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 5:35:58 PM UTC+1, John Clark wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 12:18 PM Tomas Pales <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > *> Ok, and if it becomes as strong as the other forces below the distance >> of 1 mm (as you wrote that string theory with the curled extra dimensions >> suggests) why has it not been detected below the distance of 1 mm?* >> > > Nobody knows how tightly those extra dimensions are curled up, nobody > knows how much smaller than 1mm you have to go before gravity starts to > deviate from the inverse square law, maybe it's near 10-3 meters but maybe > it's nearer to the Planck Length of 1.6*10-34 meters. If you have to get to > the Planck Length or even a million times larger it will probably never be > detected experimentally. And the entire idea might be wrong, there might > not be any extra dimensions at all. > > John K Clark >
How close do atoms or subatomic particles come to each other when they collide in particle accelerators? Is the distance between them far from Planck scale at the moment of collision? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
