Does time have infinite accuracy?

[silenzer]

Does time have infinite accuracy?

If so, how does time get past 1 second? Doesn't it get stuck at 0,111111 ... ?

If not, how does time pass from one measuring unit to another?

 

[Nabeshin]

Are you asking if time is a continuous or discrete variable? Or something along the lines of Zeno's paradox?

 

[silenzer]

I don't know enough in English to know what your first question means, but yes I think this is something to that of Zeno's paradox.

 

[JaredJames]

Accuracy is what we make it. It's how we define something that gives it accuracy.

The numbers are also dependent on what system we use to define them.

A simple example:

0.333333333... = 1/3, but only in the base 10 units system.

In a base 3 system, 1/3 = 0.1.

 

[russ_watters]

"Time" is a dimension of the universe. It has no accuracy associated with it. Clocks have accuracy.

Zeno's paradox is only an apparent paradox. It does not prevent a clock from counting time any more than it prevents an arrow from traveling to a target. Read the wiki on it or another description and it will be clarified.

 

[Deep_Spacing]

Our measurement of "continuous" time may be limited to 10^-43 seconds, a unit known as Planck time.

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

I myself wondered about this previously (is time itself continuous or separated into precise moments?), but after learning a bit about quantum mechanics I realized the question was moot. Basically, the Planck time is the shortest time that has any use.