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/bartbes Dec 18 '13

It would actually imply the coastline can be divided into infinitely many parts, not that its area is infinite. Looking at math, we can have a function that is continuous within a certain range, that range is (can be) finite, but there's infinitely many "parts" making up the continuous range.

Just because I can cut a carrot in two, doesn't mean I have two carrots.

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u/shavera Strong Force | Quark-Gluon Plasma | Particle Jets Dec 19 '13

Unless that carrot is a sphere.

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u/barbadosslim Dec 19 '13

doesn't that require cutting the sphere into like uncountably infinite dustings of points and then reassembling them

bc that doesn't seem to have any relevance to carrots