Why Physics Break Apart Beyond The Planck Length

Hey guys! We’re now live on Spotify🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Nm0Qc8... Every instrument ever built runs on the same bargain: more energy, finer detail. It has held from pond water to the inside of a proton. Then, somewhere past the reach of the largest machine on Earth, the image stops sharpening — and starts getting worse. What is it about the universe that makes looking closer stop working? Tonight we walk that ladder down rung by rung, and follow two completely separate arguments — one from collapsing energy, one from a single photon nudging a single electron — to see where they end up. Get cozy and let this slow walk to the bottom of the smallest question in physics keep you company tonight. Subscribe to Nap Theory if you enjoy the long way around the universe. CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:18 The rule underneath every instrument 11:02 The ladder we already climbed 18:41 The price of a sharper image 29:45 When matter became a wave 37:41 Inside the proton 48:48 The rule that stops caring what you are 57:56 The weight of light 69:56 The length that falls out 81:21 The accelerator the size of a galaxy 91:56 A second road 104:45 The curve that turns around 115:59 What is left when distance goes 130:57 Where that leaves us SOURCES CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants: 2022 (NIST) — https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/pdf/wall... Quantum gravity and minimum length — Garay, arXiv — https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9403008 Possible Connection Between Gravitation and Fundamental Length — Mead, Physical Review 135, B849 — Possible Connection Between Gravitation and Fundamental Length Can spacetime be probed below the string size? — Amati, Ciafaloni & Veneziano, Physics Letters B — https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/198... Generalized Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Gravity from Micro-Black Hole Gedanken Experiment — Scardigli, arXiv — Generalized Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Gravity from... Discreteness of area and volume in quantum gravity — Rovelli & Smolin, arXiv — Discreteness of area and volume in quantum gravity The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990 — Nobel Prize in Physics 1990 Deep Inelastic Scattering: The Early Years — Taylor Nobel Lecture — https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/20... Large Hadron Collider — CERN — Large Hadron Collider – Home | CERN LHC Run 3: physics at record energy starts tomorrow — CERN — https://home.cern/news/news/physics/l... CERN70: Announcing the Higgs boson discovery — https://home.cern/news/series/cern70/... A limit on the variation of the speed of light arising from quantum gravity effects — Nature 462, 331 — A limit on the variation of the speed of light arising from quantum gravity effects Probing Planck-scale physics with quantum optics — Pikovski et al., arXiv — Probing Planck-scale physics with quantum optics Controversial experiment sees no evidence that the universe is a hologram — Science — Controversial experiment sees no evidence that the universe is a hologram Quantum interference of molecules: probing the wave nature of matter — arXiv — https://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.3493 — Disclaimer: Nap Theory is an education and relaxation channel. Factual material is based on peer-reviewed research and official scientific bodies; any speculation, fringe theory, or personal analysis is identified as such when it appears. This is not a news channel. Viewer discretion advised. #PlanckLength #GeneralizedUncertaintyPrinciple