Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   If this is so, it goes against the notion that basically *everything* in
> > this universe is quantized.

> Actually, what happens is this:

> You calculate the probabilities, summing in smaller and smaller and smaller 
> probabilities of something happening. Now if you do the math all the way 
> down to zero probability, you find out the sum blows up to infinity. But as 
> long as you stop somewhere *before* you go all the way down to zero, you get 
> an answer proportional to where you stopped.  Proving that it didn't matter 
> where you stopped as long as you didn't go all the way down to zero was what 
> Feynman won the Nobel prize for. It's called "renormalization."

  But if there is no lower limit (greater than zero) then it's not
quantized. A quantized system would have an exact minimum amount, and all
other amounts would be exact multiples of that minimum.

  If you can go arbitrarily close to zero, there's no quantization.

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                                                          - Warp

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