alt Hacker NewsSabine is often right, but I think she's wrong here about Lorentz invariance being a problem, or at least a problem in the way she's saying.
Lorentz transformations are never going to length-contract the underlying fabric of space/spacetime. Relativistic length contractions contract moving objects, not the underlying spacetime.
In fact it's a strange and basic misunderstanding to have.
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auggierose • 10/12/2024
Depending on your reference coordinate system, space is transformed. That is the entire point of relativity theory. You might be misunderstanding things here.
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Sabine is correct. All objects in a spacetime are anchored to that spacetime, so if spacetime has a minimum length, then length contraction of moving objects has a detectable lower limit, thus violating Lorentz invariance.