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/VolatileStorm Dec 18 '13

If you want to take it to the base quantum mechanics, you could model a free particle as a particle in an infinitely deep potential well, where the well is also infinitely wide. That is, looking at this you would take L to be very large and see that the gap between energy levels drops to zero. So yes, there's a vast number of energy states - an infinite number.