lets have a vote, What is your guess, is time continuous or discrete?

Answer 1

I vote discrete. If it were continuous, then achilles could never win the race with the tortoise, and the arrow would never reach it's mark.

Answer 2

That depends on whether you prefer macroscopic units or Planck units. According to Planck, time is discrete, with each tick of the clock being about 10^-44 seconds. This provides a nice result for general relativity, letting us say that spacetime is perfectly symmetric (rather than that buggy minus sign that shows up by the time component). In macroscopic units, however, the discretization of time has absolutely no significance.

Answer 3

United won fair and square. Liverpool couldn't even get the ball the Torres and their possession was useless. Even if mascherano hadn't been sent off, it would have at least been a goal to nil, United totally dominated the game and there was no way Liverpool could have won. Factors that won United the game: -This was the only way to prove who was the more lethal goalscorer between Ronaldo and Torres and Ronaldo dominated and won. -Anderson was the better player than Gerrard as you could see by the possession; the attacking midfield players usually control it. -Nani was ten times more lethal than Ryan Babel even with his brief appearance. -Ferguson knew the tactics he needed to win. He sent on Tevez only late in the second half, when United were leading 2-0. He had the hunch the ref was somewhat racist towards Argentineans. Meanwhile Benitez made the mistake to let mascherano play. -Several other players like Alonso and Kuyt were nowhere to be seen. At the United end, everyone was helping and everyone got the result they deserved.

Answer 4

Time in reality is definitely continuous. We try to divide time in discrete moments (2:00pm, 2:01pm, etc) but in reality there are moments between each second, and moments between that, and so forth. It is infinitely divisible, just like numbers. It is continuous in reality, but we use a discrete method of interpreting time only as a guide.

Answer 5

I don't see how time could be discrete, since it doesn't stop and start (or at least as far as I'm aware). So, I'd say continuous.
I guess you could make it discrete by making up things like "centuries" and "decades" and such, but those are ARTIFICIAL. So, they don't count.

Answer 6

Nothing is discrete. Discrete would suggest a finite resolution, of which we have no proof. In fact, come to that matter, time in itself is only referenced against other physical occurrences. Oooooo.... It's a tough one.

Answer 7

Discrete? ...I wish! Definitely continuous!

Answer 8

Interesting question.
Is there a universal sampling period?
What is the shortest period we've been able to measure?
100 attoseconds. 1E-18seconds.

So far, that would be the sampling period of our universe as we're observing it. However, as measurement technology improves, so the time period reduces, suggesting that time is indeed continuous.

Cheers.

Answer 9

It can be either.
When dealing with time continuous variables is the rule, not the exception in science.

Answer 10

Yes! Like everything else it depends on your scale.