On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 05:23:56AM +0000, Aaron Denney wrote: > On 2010-03-08, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allb...@ece.cmu.edu> wrote: > > 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.
Hmm.. I thought something interesting happened on the scale of the plank time, 10^-44 seconds or so. Or is that only relevant to our ability to _measure_ things at that scale and not the continuity of time itself as far as QM is concerned? John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ - http://notanumber.net/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe