38 questions linked to/from Is time continuous or discrete?
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### Is time quantized? Is there a fundamental time unit that cannot be divided? [duplicate]

Is the present just a sharp line between the past and the future with no time at all, or is the present a short frozen unit of time? Could time be quantized into a fundamental units? Like Planck ...
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### Is time infinitely divisible? [duplicate]

Simple question (I think). Is time infinitely divisible? I heard that it was, although not from a particularly explanatory source. If so, are we sure that it is, without a shadow of a doubt?
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### Does the universe update time in some finite interval? [duplicate]

I was listening to a lecture by leonard susskind and one of the analogies he used was a coin having two states and he "broke" time into intervals. He continued to say that at each interval of time, if ...
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### Does a point exist in the real world [duplicate]

In mathematics we can have an infinite number of points between two integers. This is really circular logic since a point is defined as infinitely small. Does a point exist anywhere in the physical ...
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### What about continuity of Space and possible discreteness of Time? [duplicate]

Is time continuous or discrete? Is even this question a valid question? If you say, it all depends on resolution then assume the best possible resolution achievable. If it is discrete, then what about ...
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### Classical Mechanics: Continuous or Discrete universe? [duplicate]

The question of the "continuous" or "discrete" nature of the universe is the subject of diatribe among the greatest physicists in the world. I would like to discuss the same topic, but asking a ...
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### Atomic unit of time, does it exist? [duplicate]

I am having difficulty understanding time at the most fundamental level, especially I am wondering whether there exists an indivisible unit of time (i.e. whether time at some fundamental level is ...
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### Can time be Quantised? [duplicate]

Can time be quantised? Would it be the smallest distance between two photons moving in the same direction or the shortest wavelength?
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### Do we know, or at least have a strong argument for the fact that for a given time interval, we can always find a smaller time interval? [duplicate]

Motivation: In Biology, when, for example, biologists try to model the population dynamics of a population, they say: Let $N: \mathbb{R}^{nn} \to \mathbb{R}^{nn}$ be a function that represents ...
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### Argument for the Smallest Division of Time? [duplicate]

Okay so a couple of months ago I was watch Vi Hart's video on how .999999... is equal to 1. Some really interesting arguments that I had never heard before. Yesterday, I came across an article on ...
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### Planck time, time or time interval? [duplicate]

Planck time is really a weird topic, if we try to find out that is it time or time interval. It is the time taken by light to travel a Planck LENGTH so it must be time interval. But we also know that ...
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### Do physicists talk about instants and infinitely small moments in time? [duplicate]

Do physicists talk about instants and infinitely small moments in time? If so, how do they measure something like that? If they don't measure it, why do they think it exists?
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### Is the answer to the question “How many moments in time exist between any two particular moments?”, infinitely many? [duplicate]

This question is related to Xeno's paradox, and to the discrete/continuous time debate, but it comes from a slightly different angle. If the answer is infinitely many, why would this not be a ...