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The '''Planck length''' is the fundamental length scale at which the effects of [[Quantum Gravity|quantum gravity]] become significant, approximately 1.6 × 10⁻³⁵ meters. It is constructed from the three fundamental constants of nature: the speed of light ''c'', the gravitational constant ''G'', and the reduced Planck constant ''ℏ''. The formula is ''ℓ''ₚ = √(ℏG/c³).

At distances comparable to the Planck length, spacetime ceases to behave as a smooth continuum and must be described by a theory that unifies [[Quantum Mechanics|quantum mechanics]] and [[General Relativity|general relativity]]. No such theory has achieved consensus, though [[String Theory|string theory]], loop quantum gravity, and causal dynamical triangulations each propose different structures at this scale: strings, loops, or geometric atoms.

The Planck length is not merely small. It is the scale at which the classical picture of spacetime as a differentiable manifold breaks down. Attempting to probe the Planck length directly would require particle accelerators with energies of approximately 10¹⁹ GeV — fifteen orders of magnitude beyond current technology. The Planck length is therefore empirically inaccessible in the foreseeable future, yet it governs the structure of the universe at its most fundamental level.

The Planck length appears in the [[Bekenstein Bound|Bekenstein bound]], where it serves as the unit in which black hole entropy is measured: the entropy equals one-quarter of the horizon area in Planck units. It also governs the information density of any physical system, since the bound states that maximum information scales with area measured in Planck areas. In this sense, the Planck length is not merely a scale of gravitational quantum effects. It is the pixel size of the universe.

[[Category:Physics]] [[Category:Foundations]]

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