• Question: Is there anything smaller than a yoctometer?

    Asked by anon-18007 to Jon on 13 Mar 2012.
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      Jon Benton answered on 13 Mar 2012:


      There are a few things and these are the building blocks of the whole universe. At the moment the smallest measurable and sensible size is the planck legth which is 1-36 m a yoctometre is 1-25 m. A neutrino is about 1 yoctometre. The only thing left is quantum foam from einsteins space-time theory or strings from the string theory of the universe however these haven’t been proved to exist yet.

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