
9 Mar
2010
9 Mar
'10
12:23 a.m.
On 2010-03-08, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
There is a discrete time quantum. But unless you're doing simulations at the quantum level, you really don't want to go there (even ignoring that one second of real time would take a really long time to calculate on current hardware :); stick to macrocosmic physics, which is statistically continuous.
That's ... contentious. In both quantum mechanics and GR, time is completely, flattly, continuous. In certain extremely speculative frameworks attempting to combine the regimes in which they are applicable, that may not be the case. But for accepted physics models, time really is continous. -- Aaron Denney -><-