(April 11, 2014 at 7:19 pm)Chuck Wrote: It's not a hand wave. Event is a menifestation of change over time. According to quantum mechanics, time, like matter, is not infinitely divisible. There are fundamental units of time, just as there are for charge, mass, space. There is no meaning to what happened before and what happened after within one Planck time, just as there is no meaning where exactly it is within one planck length. So there is no meaning to causality on the scale of planck time. So by this interpretation of quantum mechanics events happening on planck time scale is truly random (in a statistical sense), not menifestation of deeper mechanistic causality.
Negative Chuck,
Nobody knows if time is quantized or not. The planck time distinguishes the smallest interval of time we can know anything about. This does not mean time intervals smaller than the planck time have no meaning. Further if it is ever shown that time is quantized it still does not follow that just because there is a smallest interval of time and there is a smallest unit of matter, that events become indistinguishable from matter.
Events are distinguishable from matter at any scale.
