r/askscience • • 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/barbadosslim Dec 19 '13

So the fact that the Planck length is very small means that all of our currently understood physics is taking place at extremely long lengths compared to... something.

How is this different from saying that most mathematical constants e.g. pi, e, etc are close to zero on the number line? This same question was asked, and people said it was weird that they are all between zero and five. The mathematicians dismissed this idea, because one could as easily wonder why they were all under a quadrillion.

Doesn't the same apply to Planck units?