{"id":1670,"date":"2025-02-19T00:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2025-02-19T00:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:33:58","slug":"planck-length-concept-vs-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/2025\/02\/19\/planck-length-concept-vs-implications\/","title":{"rendered":"Planck Length &#8211; Concept vs Implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>concept<\/i> of the Planck length can be fully understood on the basis of only a bit of dimensional analysis applied to the apparent fundamental constants of c, h, and G (whose existences had all been identified long before black holes and even photons were considered to be \u201creal\u201d). It\u2019s <i>implications<\/i> are by no means yet fully understood, but it is obvious that they will have something to do with the relationship between quantum and gravitational phenomena &#8211; perhaps (but not necessarily) as a limit on the possible \u201csizes\u201d of black holes and\/or the wavelengths of \u201cphotons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/The-concept-of-the-Planck-length-cannot-be-fully-understood-without-a-deep-understanding-of-black-holes-and-photons-So-how-did-this-misconception-that-Planck-length-presented-by-Planck-with-vague-evidence-in-his\/answer\/Alan-Cooper-5\">(1001) Alan Cooper&#8217;s answer to The concept of the Planck length cannot be fully understood without a deep understanding of black holes and photons. So, how did this misconception, that Planck length presented by Planck with vague evidence in his papers written years before that? &#8211; Quora<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of the Planck length can be fully understood on the basis of only a bit of dimensional analysis applied to the apparent fundamental constants of c, h, and G (whose existences had all been identified long before black holes and even photons were considered to be \u201creal\u201d). It\u2019s implications are by no means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/2025\/02\/19\/planck-length-concept-vs-implications\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planck Length &#8211; Concept vs Implications<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[100],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-quora-answers","tag-planck-length"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}