Is time continuous or discrete?

[Philosophy Explorer]

In my opinion, continuous. I've never seen a discussion on this before, but for space, it is said to be discrete.

If time were discrete, then what happens in-between? And how would it go back and forth between those points where it does exist?

Here's a Wiki article:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discret ... nuous_time

PhilX

[surreptitious57]

At the smallest unit of measurement that is Planck time it is continuous. And were it discrete then that would mean our entire
system of temporal measurement was false. However there is no reason or evidence to suggest that it is actually discrete. And
so less it can be demonstrated otherwise it shall carry on being regarded as being continuous mainly for reasons of practicality

[clueless]

In my opinion, continuous. I've never seen a discussion on this before, but for space, it is said to be discrete.

If time were discrete, then what happens in-between? And how would it go back and forth between those points where it does exist?

Here's a Wiki article:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discret ... nuous_time

PhilX

TIME is a headscratcher. It's probably neither continuous nor discrete. At every point along the time axis of an oscillograph (with time progressing to the right), except t=zero and t=stop, what's to the left of the point is the record of what occurred up to that point (the past), and what's to the right of the point is the record of what would occur after that point (the future). The point itself is an instant in time of zero duration. The past and the future don't overlap. The future becomes instantly the past. Where is the present? it's non-existent. What we normally refer to as the present (the "now") is evidently the immediate past recorded in memory. We are evidently continuously accessing memory, a process which itself takes time. Without memory we are up a creek. nn

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