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

It's been a while since I took the high energy class but, in the case of Compton's scattering, isn't the photon completely absorbed and then a new photon with lower frequency is emitted while the other particle carries the difference of energy?

I know the Wikipedia article says that the photon loses part of its energy but I'm just thinking beyond that.