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Comment author: torekp 10 December 2014 12:11:03AM 5 points [-]

True, false, or neither?: It is currently an open/controversial/speculative question in physics whether time is discretized.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 10 December 2014 01:37:28AM 8 points [-]

The Wikipedia article on Planck time says:

Theoretically, this is the smallest time measurement that will ever be possible, roughly 10^−43 seconds. Within the framework of the laws of physics as we understand them today, for times less than one Planck time apart, we can neither measure nor detect any change.

However, the article on Chronon says:

The Planck time is a theoretical lower-bound on the length of time that could exist between two connected events, but it is not a quantization of time itself since there is no requirement that the time between two events be separated by a discrete number of Planck times.

Comment author: iamthelowercase 12 June 2015 08:20:30AM 0 points [-]

So, if I understand this rightly-

Any two events must take place at least one Plank time apart. But so long as they do, it can be any number of plank times -- even, say, pi. Right?

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