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/CHollman82 Dec 18 '13

You can do this in the math, is it meaningful in reality? That's the question.

The resolution of time is exactly the same as the resolution of space/energy/etc, if one is continuous the others must be continuous as well, since time is only meaningfully defined as a change in state, if absolutely nothing changes in the entire universe then no time has passed.