Physical Implications of a Fundamental Period of Time

Garrett Wendel; Luis Martínez; Martin Bojowald

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.241301

Physical Implications of a Fundamental Period of Time

Garrett Wendel, Luis Martínez, Martin Bojowald

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Abstract

If time is described by a fundamental process rather than a coordinate, it interacts with any physical system that evolves in time. The resulting dynamics is shown here to be consistent provided the fundamental period of the time system is sufficiently small. A strong upper bound TC<10-33 s of the fundamental period of time, several orders of magnitude below any direct time measurement, is obtained from bounds on dynamical variations of the period of a system evolving in time.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	241301
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	124
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.241301
State	Published - Jun 19 2020

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