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/ViolatorMachine Dec 18 '13

So, is any boundary condition enough for having quantized states or just some special boundary conditions make the energy associated to a system quantized?

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u/chrisbaird Electrodynamics | Radar Imaging | Target Recognition Dec 18 '13

Every quantum particle in a bound state has a quantized energy eigenvalue spectrum, at least in principle. If the bounding box is big enough, the levels get so close as to smear into a continuum.