Before outstaying my welcome, this Planck Time, being the theoretically
smallest measurable interval, presents us with the QUANTUM view
of time as DISCONTINUOUS. Stan Kelly-Bootle.
J.A.:
My Layman's mind, along with Friedman's help, thinks it may have
understood about a third of what you discussed. Over the years I've
plunked through several books about quantum physics because friends of
mind insisted that it verified the possibility of magic and other stuff
that of course turned out not to be the case, but I did get stuck on
this time issue. When you say time can be discontinuous, obviously this
must have to do with something other than what I will call real clock
time (I recall reading about particles going backwards or forwards or
something, meaning that time had been trumped or whatever), since its
continuity, the sensation of passage, is really based on perceptual
memory and if it became discontinous then time would be meaningless.
Time is only a measuring device we use with our memories to correlate
changes in space. People like myself who understand little or no
science often get the idea that The Time Travelers are coming! from
our shallow exposure to the Quantum revolution.