time is discreet?

Question

does anyone know of attempted proofs of time's lack of continuity? i'm looking for names and links specifically. i'm not interested in the approach from a philisophical perspective, rather from a mathematical one. i understand that "i doesn't matter because we can't perceive the intervals" or whatever one may say. thanks though.

Answer 1

I believe that a relatively new idea in physics called "loop quantum gravity" proposes that time as well as space may be discrete or discontinuous. Just as there is something called a plank-length or a minimum length, there is a plank time interval, an absolute minimal time interval. It's such a short time interval that to talk about anything shorter in duration becomes meaningless because of Heisenberg Uncertainty. This is physics but I'm sure it has some philosophical foundation.

Answer 2

I realize you will not pick this answer since you already have a fixed point of view but keep this in the back of your mind.

Time can not be anymore discreet then a transition in any other dimension. All motion or transition is linear. Since we live in a quantized universe our ability to measure is limited to quantized units. The smallest of these units is the Planck. This only allows us to measure at fixed points.

Answer 3

time flys when your having fun and it goes slow as hell when your sitting in jail. i know first hand. if that was time manipulation why would a day in jail seem to take forever but a day at the beach goes by so fast? its all perspective but in the end no matter how long your day was compared to mine they still are equal.

Answer 4

My personal guess is that it will be years to decades or more before we can do an experiment whose outcome will show a limit to how far time can be subdivided.

Answer 5

Yes.

I have always come to associate time with discreet.

My girlfriend always says "we have time, let's be discreet".