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The attainable precision is limited to much lower values by much simpler causes.

The theory that the Planck length has any significance is just a speculation.

Nobody knows how interactions would behave at distances so small and there are no known methods that could compress anything into volumes so small. There is no basis to believe that extrapolating the behavior from normal distances and sizes to the scale of the Planck length is valid.

There are pure speculations that are interesting, but in my opinion any speculation about the Planck length is not interesting, because nobody has been able to formulate any prediction based on such a speculation that can be verified in any way.

Most speculations about the Planck length are made by people who obviously know very little about the meaning of the so-called fundamental constants or of about the significance of the useful natural units for physical quantities, to which the Planck length does not belong.

The Planck length is just one way to express the intensity of the gravitational interaction, i.e. an alternative to Newton's constant of gravitation. Its numeric value does not say anything about any other physical phenomena.

The numeric smallness of Planck's length is just an expression of how weak the gravitational interaction is in comparison with the other interactions. It does not have any other significance.




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