What is the Smallest Unit of Time for Measuring Acceleration?

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The smallest unit of time for measuring acceleration is a topic of debate, primarily revolving around the concepts of chronons and Planck time. A chronon represents the time light takes to traverse the classical electron radius, while Planck time is approximately 5.39 x 10^-44 seconds. However, these measurements are not applicable for classical acceleration studies. Current scientific consensus indicates that there is no definitive evidence supporting the quantization of time, leaving the question open for further exploration.

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Is there a quantum of time?
What’s the smallest interval of time in which acceleration can place? – on the earth? – on the sun? – on a black hole?
A chronon is the time that light takes to cover classical electron radius. The other is the Planck time. But these won't serve my purpose, when I am trying to study (classical) acceleration.
 
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There is no evidence that time is quantized and some folks believe it is, some believe it isn't.

EDIT: I seem to recall reading somewhere that if time IS quantized, then the measure of quantization is WAY less than the Plank time, but I cannot provide you a reference for that and in fact I may misremember it entirely.
 

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