The Minimum Length and the Surprises of Quantum Physics ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Minimal length: A source of quantum non-locality"
At the smallest scales, space is like a digital screen: momentum gets blurry, and particles entangle on their own.
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It turns out that if quantum mechanics takes into account that space ceases to be smooth at ultra-small distances, a particle's momentum can become complex and particles can spontaneously entangle. This breaks standard ideas and opens the door to unraveling quantum gravity.
🎯 If an atom were scaled up to the size of the observable universe, the minimum Planck length would be comparable to the height of a tree—just about ten meters.