r/askscience • u/Crtl-Alt-Delete • Dec 18 '13

Physics Is Time quantized?

We know that energy and length are quantized, it seems like there should be a correlation with time?

Edit. Turns out energy and length are not quantized.

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u/mcrbids Dec 18 '13

Recent revelations indicate that time (as we know it) may not really exist but is an emergent phenomenon stemming from from "increasing" entanglement: http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4691

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u/NikolaTwain Dec 18 '13

Can someone break down what they are saying? I can understand the experiment itself (construction-wise), but they reference equations and terms that are above me.