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  2. Planck units - Wikipedia

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    The Bekenstein–Hawking entropy of a black hole is one-fourth the area of its event horizon in units of Planck length squared. [11]: 370 Since the 1950s, it has been conjectured that quantum fluctuations of the spacetime metric might make the familiar notion of distance inapplicable below the Planck length.

  3. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    1 Planck length: 0.0000162 qm Planck length; typical scale of hypothetical loop quantum gravity or size of a hypothetical string and of branes; according to string theory, lengths smaller than this do not make any physical sense. [1] Quantum foam is thought to exist at this scale. 10 −24: 1 yoctometer 142 ym

  4. Size - Wikipedia

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    The maximum file size a file system supports depends on the number of bits reserved to store size information and the total size of the file system in terms of its capacity to store bits of information. In physics, the Planck length, denoted ℓ P, is a unit of length, equal to 1.616 199 (97) × 10 −35 metres.

  5. Quantum foam - Wikipedia

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    The fluctuations characteristic of a spacetime foam would be expected to occur on a length scale on the order of the Planck length (≈ 10 −35 m), [12] but some models of quantum gravity predict much larger fluctuations. Photons should be slowed by quantum foam, with the rate depending on the wavelength of the photons.

  6. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    The amount of time light takes to travel one Planck length. quectosecond: 10 −30 s: One nonillionth of a second. rontosecond: 10 −27 s: One octillionth of a second. yoctosecond: 10 −24 s: One septillionth of a second. jiffy (physics) 3 × 10 −24 s: The amount of time light takes to travel one fermi (about the size of a nucleon) in a ...

  7. Superstring theory - Wikipedia

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    Superstring theory resolves this issue, replacing the classical idea of point particles with strings. These strings have an average diameter of the Planck length, with extremely small variances, which completely ignores the quantum mechanical predictions of Planck-scale length dimensional warping. Also, these surfaces can be mapped as branes.

  8. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    The smallest meaningful increment of time is the Planck time―the time light takes to traverse the Planck distance, many decimal orders of magnitude smaller than a second. [ 1 ] The largest realized amount of time, based on known scientific data, is the age of the universe , about 13.8 billion years—the time since the Big Bang as measured in ...

  9. The Scale of the Universe - Wikipedia

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    Planck length: 10 −35 meters 1.6 × 10 −35 meters Yoctometer: 10 −24 meters ... Estimated size of the universe: 9.3 × 10 26 meters 160 billion light years 1.6 ...