Question by wow: Does time exist at the quantum level?
My hunch is no. There’s really no mass to affect things either way. Things can supposedly happen before the effects. So if it’s there at all does it run fast, slow, or perhaps inconceivable process that can only be shown mathematically ? And how could a tiny, tiny, clock operate way down there anyways, lol.?
When the universe “ends”, will the quantum world continue on without time, having no concept of what it was in the first place? Now there’s a deep thought, eh?
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Answer by goring
A quantum is an entity that cannot be divided any further..The Unit of time is a second.
is time a quantum? The Big Bang theory indicated an expansion in 10^-43 seconds. so in between the expansion time can be divided further ,However what is exactly the limit of time? it would be zero time.Hence time cannot go below zero.any more than we can freeze hydrogen below zero Kelvin.
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Time “exists” for us because motion exists. When we write the equation that describes the location of a car traveling on a highway, we need a variable that we call “time” in order to explain it.
We measure time with clocks, and inside the clocks are things that move; A swinging pendulum, or a vibrating quartz crystal, or the oscillations of excited cesium atoms, or whatever. When we measure the “time” it takes for the car to get from point A to point B, what we are really doing is comparing the motion of the car to the motion of whatever it is that makes our clock work.
Your consciousness is the result of chemical signals passing from neuron to neuron within your brain—more moving things. When you consciously experience “time” you are comparing the speed of external events to the speed of the particles that constitute your own thought processes.
I read an interesting idea. Turns out, it’s actually quite an old idea in the world of physics, but it’s not one that you hear about much. Perhaps you have heard about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in France and Switzerland. Perhaps you have heard that it was built to prove the existence of something called the Higgs particle, and that the Higgs particle is somehow responsible for explaining why objects have mass.
OK. The idea is this. The speed of light is not merely an upper limit to how fast anything can move, but it is, in fact, the _only_ speed at which anything can move. You probably already know that massless particles always travel at exactly the speed of light.
According to the Higgs theory, massless particles are particles that do not interact with the “Higgs field.” Massive particles interact with it continually. The Higgs field causes them to zig and zag (at exactly the speed of light) wherever they go. The zig-zag motion is so rapid—far faster than anything we can ever hope to measure—so we see only the _average_ motion of the particle. It may seem to us as if the particle is moving slowly or standing still.
If all of that is true, then I think it could have some truly profound implications for what “time” actually is because, consider this: The theory of relativity says that particles moving at the speed of light do not experience time….
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Well anyway, here’s where I read about it.
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Reality-Complete-Guide-Universe/dp/0679776311/
Many of the author’s ideas are controversial in the world of physics, but he happens also to be a colleague and close friend of Prof. Stephen Hawking, so they pay attention what he says.
I’ll warn you though. It’s not an easy read, and if you skip over any of the math, then you will be missing pretty much the entire message of the book.
My hunch is YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!