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[edit] Notability?

Is this notable? A Google Scholar search for "chronon" only brings up 648 articles, most of which have under 20 citations. [1] --Mike Peel 15:22, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, after reading the article I don't know why I know what a chronon is. It's not referenced in the QM or decoherence articles at all... --HantaVirus 17:06, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

It's not standard physics, although the idea has been proposed. Time is not quantized in standard quantum mechanics, although there is some suspicion that a correct model of quantum gravity will need time to be quantized.--Srleffler 00:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Universal Slideshow?

"A chronon is a proposed quantum of time, that is a discrete and indivisible "unit" of time, in a theory that proposes that time is not continuous." Time is not continuous...this doesn't seem rational, even considering quantum mechanics. The other three dimensions (those of space), have no quantized lengths, so why would time? Also, a chronon (2×10-23 s) is like 1021 times longer than a planck time, which is the closest that theories can get us to the Big Bang. If chronons are discrete and indivisble, then what does the planck time denote? I dont think that time is quantized into segments. Instead, a planck time is the smallest interval in the continuous "stream" (FLOABW...) of time that makes physical sense to use (explaination). --HantaVirus 15:35, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

There us the notion of an "elementary length," it just tends to be raised more as speculation than as a proven theory. See, for example this definition (defining the elementary length as "a fundamental number λ such that all length measurements would be integer multiples of λ" and here (a discussion that references the "elementary length"). In Loop quantum gravity, the elementary length is the Planck Length and every length is necessarily a multiple of that length. (Reference). --Unregistered User 19 March 2007 18:05 (EDT)

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