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[1]	Wolfgang Littmann, Independent Consultant, Reservoir Engineering, Wunstorf, Germany.

Abstract

Other than quantities like mass and space time is not easy to understand and is a mystery since ever. However for any measurement in physics time is required so that from a more philosophical point of view nothing may exist without time. Time is measured using periodical re-occurring events like the movement of our planet around the sun. At the absolute zero point no movement exists and therefore nothing may be measured, which means that time is absent, a possible explanation for the singularity of a black hole. Mathematics is a tool and the basis for our description of the world. This description is continues and mathematics uses descretisation only to ease computations. If the descretisation is small enough this approach converges to the analytical solution. Other than in mathematics it has been proven by observations on a small scale that nature does not behave continues but discrete, how it is described in quantum mechanics. The superposition of movements and velocity is an experience of our daily life. It has been observed that this superposition does not occur at the velocity of light. In order to keep physics consistent a transformation of time is necessary, which results in the theory of relativity. If we make our world discrete with a smallest distance that e.g. reflects the smallest difference in radii for electrons in an atom and take the velocity of light as a maximum possible velocity this requires a smallest discrete time step. Using such approach a transformation of time becomes obsolete.

Keywords

Time, Space, Discretization, Relativity

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