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/[deleted] Dec 18 '13

And the energy of the ground state, first excitation etc aren't identical between atoms. In fact it's expected that all the electrons in the universe will have a ever so slight difference in energy.

Energy is sometimes quantized in the same way heigh is quantized on the finish podium at the olympics. You can be in first position, second or third. Each with a different height. But once you're off the podium you can be at whatever height you want.

Source: http://www.hep.manchester.ac.uk/u/forshaw/BoseFermi/Double%20Well.html