https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1512.01216/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12281165urn:hackerpapers:mention:1512.01216:12281165Sat, 13 Aug 2016 12:13:58 GMT<p>Firstly, the Holometer is either inadequate [0] or discredited [1], take your pick. Hogan invents a theory, then invents the apparatus that &#x27;tests&#x27; it, but there is no way a couple of 40m interferometers are probing the Planck scale. The paper [2] quotes 10^-18 m for a single interferometer, and implies 10^-23 m for both, which is about 12 orders of magnitude above the Planck scale. Secondly, quantized space-time is a slightly separate issue from the Holographic Principle [3], you can have discreteness without holography, but there has been huge theoretical progress in these subjects in the…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1512.01216/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>gr-qc