2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/61620In the context of earlier work, we investigate the emergence of a "distance" in the physical world. For this we consider a Cantor ternary like process, but much more general: properties like perfectness and disconnectedness are not invoked, but instead we deal with Borel sets. An interesting case from a physical point of view is considered: when the process is truncated.4 pages, TeXGeneral MathematicsThe Origin of a Metrictext