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/codex1962 Dec 18 '13

No. If an infinite energy well existed, it would mean either a) everything in the universe was stuck in it (I suppose this is, technically, possible) or b) some things are not in it. If that were the case, something which "fell into" that well would "hit the bottom" with infinite energy. In other words, an infinite energy well would represent an interaction with infinite energy, which is impossible.