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Is time continuous or discrete?
Colton Cooper
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Angel Brown
Discrete unless your measurement device uses a continuous property of matter.
Matthew Perez
>continuous property of matter
Jack Thompson
I was using OPs terminology, non-discrete could fit you.
Time is measured by physical observations, time is only as continuous as your ability to measure it.
Jayden Taylor
>if it's not measured, it doesn't occur/exist
well memed NEETtard
Mason Morris
OP asked about continuity of time, an abstract concept which relies on measurement to exist.
You can theorize what happens if you can't measure it, I made no claim that what you can't measure doesn't happen. What I did imply is that you cannot prove continuity with discrete instruments.
Isaiah Rogers
the question in the OP wasn't whether we could prove continuity, it was only whether or not time is continuous or discreet.
If time was discreet, you would be able to tell easily. If time was not continuous, everything could only move for certain discreet duration, meaning there would be acceleration and deceleration in every interval. You would be able to measure the bremsstrahlung spectrum for example of an electron beam to confirm the discontinuity of time. Also if time were discreet, what force would be accelerating and decelerating everything in every discreet time interval?
Gabriel Bailey
continuous but it can be modeled well as discrete
Isaiah Wilson
>If time was discreet, you would be able to tell easily.
How? You're trying to measure the interval of change from inside a system that relies on it.
>What force would be accelerating and decelerating everything in every discreet time interval?
That is an excellent question to ponder. I do not know.
Joseph Morales
>How?
I just explained that. set up an electron beam, with a spectroscopy system with detectors orthogonal to, and in front of the beam just above and below it. if time is discreet, you will see brem spectra, from the acceleration/deceleration of the electrons at the discreet time intervals. there will be energy given off by the deceleration of the electrons, and it will be detected easily.