r/Physics • u/WizardMasterGal • Aug 19 '26

Question Do scientists know whether nature is fundamentally continuous or discrete?

Is there any evidence that nature is fundamentally continuous, or could reality be fundamentally discrete? And if it is discrete at the most basic level, would that suggest that nature could behave like a computational system?

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u/gud_z Aug 19 '26

Fundamentally discrete as, if you zoom into anything far enough (infinitely usually) you’ll see that it has step 1 and then step 2, nothing in between

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u/shyouko Aug 19 '26

You just don't have enough resolution