The time at the subplanckian scale
Abstract
With the theory of special relativity, time has been linked with space into a four-dimensional space-time from which a basic question must be asked: can space be really transformed into time and vice-versa? The response is affirmative if time has the same structural topological structure as space at the subplanckian quantum level in such a way that a discrete structural quantum time constitutes the time part of the space-time internal vacuum of every elementary particle. It has thus been shown that a quantum time, quantized algebraically according to a lattice of time quanta, really exists and is emergent in the sense that time quanta can be transformed into space quanta and vice-versa. Furthermore,this quantum time, only relevant at the subplanckian scale, is proved to be in one-to-one correspondence with the absolute and relative clock times.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2007
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.physics/0701242
- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0701242
- Bibcode:
- 2007physics...1242P
- Keywords:
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- Physics - General Physics
- E-Print:
- 8 pages