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The space represented in a flat piece of paper.

The space is continuous even if we can only measure down to the Planck length.




Key here: "represented"

I'm only a mathematician, no physicist. But I think to remember, that the concept of a continuous physical space becomes quite muddled at this scale.


"The space represented by the water in a convex container"


If you get to assume continuous paper, then I get assumed continuous paper.

If you don't want to assume continuity, then you get it back by rephrasing your theorems as "within a margin of error equal to the distance between discrete objects".




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