Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Space, Time, and Motion

  • Weyl’s Tiles: An Argument against Discrete Space

    Is physical space, the space of the natural world, continuous or discrete? If composed of space atoms, then discrete. The Weyl Tile argument (WTA), however, seems to show that physical space cannot be discrete or 'quantized' and therefore must be continuous. This is relevant to our ongoing debate about potential versus actual infinities. For if…