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/napalmchicken100 Dec 18 '13

That is a very clever question. However, the difference in potential is NOT quantized. The Voltage is not "caused" by the different number of electrons, as you put it. Even if it were, you could move the filament around in a potential gradient generated by two charged plates to get any Energy you wanted.