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krishna mohan
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Hi...
It is an easy to see fact that, instead of moving along the hypotenuse of a right triangle, one starts from the lower corner and reach the upper corner moving only along the directions of the other two sides, i.e only vertically and horizontally and not diagonally...the distance moved is just the sum of the other two sides...even if we take a limit of the steps being infinitesimal...
Somewhere I remember having read of this being an argument against discreteness of space...
Can someone throw some light on this topic??
It is an easy to see fact that, instead of moving along the hypotenuse of a right triangle, one starts from the lower corner and reach the upper corner moving only along the directions of the other two sides, i.e only vertically and horizontally and not diagonally...the distance moved is just the sum of the other two sides...even if we take a limit of the steps being infinitesimal...
Somewhere I remember having read of this being an argument against discreteness of space...
Can someone throw some light on this topic??