Nonsense. There is no shorter time than the Planck time. Therefore time is quantized not continuous.
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Nice post!
Don’t know why but it reminds me about an article I read about multi-tasking. It has been proven impossible for a human to do several things simultaneously. They may think they can do several things at once but, in fact, they are constantly switching from one task to another, and efficiency in completing any one of the tasks is diminished..
Time is the passage of events...I sometimes wonder what came first....time or events...then I realize they happened simultaneously when God spoke the universe into being.
If we can ever truly grasp “a time before time” we may be on to something.
Time is like a movie film strip - each frame has notches on the sides which the camera uses to grab the film and pass to the next frame to be projected. Our eyes project the light which passes through the frame illuminating it (a Greek concept - which prevailed for hundreds of years and may not have been unique to them).
Some time the ‘film’ breaks and is ‘spliced’ back together seamlessly - but some frames are left on the cutting room floor, so to speak, which causes people and things to just vanish never to be seen again.
This actually happened to me 60 years ago while waiting for a traffic light to change - one moment the light as there and the next gone, only to reappear a few intervals later ...
These "hidden" states may just be the observations the scientists would have liked to have been able to make to better catch the fluctuations of the observables.
The law of causality is an axiom. It states that entities cause the actions of entities, and an entity must act in accordance with its nature. If the nature of an entity contains a hidden state, then that state must be discovered and understood.
Time and form are the greatest delusions sustained by human kind (in my opinion).
The strongest proof of discrete time is my toaster. The toast slowly, linearly and smoothly progresses toward a light golden brown. Then I turn my back for a second and, BANG!, burnt toast. Time is sneaky. If you stop watching time, it stops behaving.
Another proof. The hands of our gur grade school clocks in the fifties would completely stop for a FULL MINUTE. Time hung there, suspended, as the teachers droned on. Then, BANG!, the time instantaneously jumped a whole minute. During the minute when the flow of time stopped, anything could happen.
Lastly, I woke today and found myself old. That happened in the blink of an eye. How can that happen if time doesn’t pass in discrete chunks?
There you have it...three solid proofs of the existence of discrete time.
Schrodinger says there’s a turd in the cat box.....or there isn’t.
Too early in the morning for this, but NO. They have the wrong idea of time. Time is the measurement of motion. Specifically, the motion of the Earth, Sun, and Moon. There is no objective reality that exists outside of the mind called “time.” So it is stupid to ask if time is continuous, or in quantums.
Check with St Thomas of Aquinas for a better explanation.
time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once...Shannon thought differently.
Well that's what I heard 30 years ago. That was a long time ago.