Mal12345
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Interesting article.
The thing about quanta is that a lot of stuff that we perceive just simply falls apart at that level. Interestingly in that article it even says:
One big problem between general relativity and quantum theory is that large bodies - large in the sense of watermelons or people - simply don't act the same way.
Gently placing your hand on a table is a marked difference from slamming down on it quickly, and slamming on it quickly is a marked difference from pressing on it very hard.
If this were only attributed to mass then you wouldn't be able to apply more pressure than your body weight, but you can apply more pressure than your weight. So maybe space has something to do with it? Well, with space and mass, even if you move somehow with a fixed velocity that magically works without time, you still wouldn't be able to apply more pressure than your mass.
However, if you have velocity, you can gain mass. Hence, just standing up won't break your legs because it's only the mass of your body but if you jump off a building you have more mass and therefore hit with more force, and are liable to break something. Where does this extra mass come from? It comes from velocity. How can we factor velocity, without time?
At less than relativistic speeds, mass doesn't change enough to make a difference. You're talking about momentum.