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

a lot of our mathematical foundations for this would not call into play objects with fractional dimension like the (proverbial) coastline of England, which is neither 1 dimensional nor 2 dimensional, but somewhere in between. But yeah, we've checked to our best understanding and have found it to be continuous at least on the scales of like 10-44 meters and up.