The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-time world
Monday, April 15, 2019 - 08:50
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists believe that time is continuous, not discrete — roughly speaking, they believe that it does not progress in “chunks,” but rather “flows,” smoothly and continuously. So they often model the dynamics of physical systems as continuous-time “Markov processes,” named after mathematician Andrey Markov. Indeed, scientists have used these processes to investigate a range of […]