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#480

Time is not continuous.

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After 3 votes and with 19 points ahead, the winner is...

mourningeyes
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Description

If a beam of light is made of photons.
And, if the size of the photon has the length of an electron.
The measure of a time particle has the value from an electron size divided by the speed of light.

According to this formula: C= distance (length)/ time.
Where C is equal to the speed of light.
Length is the size of an electron.
And in time we get the smallest particle of time.

Even if con were able to get an argument put up, I don't think con would have done any better. It can be demonstrated many different ways that time is not continuous.

Anyway, it is what it is.

It could be a so nice debate... I guess...

Anyway, it is what it is.

I was wondering about time,...
Somehow t in C=distance(d)/time(t), is just a measure, we could always have time even though we couldn't measure it.
But why to have something that can't measure anything.
If the smaller particle gives the less amount of time to measure the least time that I can have.
(Would be similar to have temperatures less than 0Kelvin)
There's no sense the electrons can't move less than not moving (not spining, or not shaking).

Anyway, it is what it is.

Sadly the subject doesn't seem to be attractive.

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"In 1947 during a study of cosmic ray interactions, a product of a proton collision with a nucleus was found to live for a much longer time than expected: 10-10 seconds instead of the expected 10-23 seconds! "
in
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/quark.html

Let's suppose that exists an electron-time.
And then maybe Shadows made by these particles, that just exist in their life in 10-23 seconds.
Like grains in a clepsydra that would be moist. (The moist would be their shadow).

It's just wonders.
Never mind!

Well,

Somehow I'm thankful that somebody accepted the debate.

Sorry for the delay on the first argument wasn't on purpose. Belive me.

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@RationalMadman

Yes, I guess time as an infinite "thing" is an illusion.

Some philosophies believe that we are in a kind of simulation.
The existentialists' ones believe that if we go back, everything would be the same thing.
I sincerely don't know.
But having a doubt, there's a chance of being possible, I guess.

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@mourningeyes

I believe it's coding (we are in a simulation).

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@MagicAintReal

Well, Space is continuously growing (Doppler effect) but space is not continuous, you have atoms.
And, atoms are far away from being continuous. (Rutherford experience, not mentioning Schrodinger anyway, but saying that is how they are, not continuous).
In a larger space, I can also say that black holes may be are, what we can say, that space is not continuous.

Imagine a string with beads.
Imagine that you want to know the time that the bead takes to travel.
What is the maximum time that the bead can make to travel:
If the size of it, put the condition about the least size that it can actually make (it's the least portion that the bead can make, if it's smaller it can't move).
And the Velocity is the velocity of light, C.

I guess, we are all expecting something that combines two things. Like electro-magnetism.
Cosmos with atoms, the big and small.
And all the things in nature combine with one another.

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Happy a new year.

It's a continuous chain of finite units. Not a stream, the stream is an illusion.

That's simply not true, because time is on a continuum with space (spacetime) and space is continuously expanding at a constant rate proportional to the distance between the galaxies and is continuously perpetuated by the cosmological constant.
If Chronons are a real particle, there's no indication that the passage of time is not continuous given the standard model of particle physics and cosmology.

Do not accept this debate. This is genuinely correct.