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Letter: Planck calls

Published 18 February 2015

From Martin Gregorie

Further to Vernon Barber’s speculation (7 February, p 54), if we do turn out to be autonomous avatars in a computer simulation, then Planck’s constant is the limit of the model’s resolution.
Harlow, Essex, UK

Issue no. 3009 published 21 February 2015

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