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Ono-Sendai10/12/20241 replyview on HN

She seems to be talking about spacetime itself being Lorentz contracted though.

it's true that a sufficiently fast moving object would be length contracted so much that it started interacting with the minimal LQG length, which would violate Lorentz invariance. Depending on how big the LQG loops are, that could be a fanstastically high speed that isn't achievable in the universe though.


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naasking10/12/2024

Continuously saying "minimum length could just be smaller" is a god of the gaps argument. Technically correct but wildly suspicious, particularly if your theory doesn't actually say what the minimum length ought to be, eg. it's borderline not falsifiable if you can keep moving the goalposts.

I assume the paper she and Brian Keating are talking about were very explicit in how they tested this property and how Lorentz invariance was expected to be violated, so you could check the paper for specifics.