The Nature of Time

Abstract

IN NATUBE of Jan. 31, p. 163, F. O. Wollaston and K. W. Miller suggest that time consists of discrete sections: that is, time has an interrupted structure. The element of time is assumed to be equal to h/mc², where m is the mass of the electron. In connexion with this subject, it should be noted that a similar idea was put forward by Robert Lévy,¹ and was afterwards worked out more closely by myself,² Gottfried Beck,³ Wilhelm Anderson,⁴ and Seitarô Sùzuki.⁵ In this way it was possible to establish a range of regularities bearing upon astrophysics and the nature of cosmic rays.⁶ These regularities also correspond well with Dirac's⁷ theory of protons and electrons. In all these cases, however, it is necessary to take a smaller element of time than that shown above. This elementary interval is equal to h/Mc², where M is the mass of the proton.