Jack K

I still have an unanswered question: Why does the formalism of quantum mechanics break if time is quantized and discrete? Would this break Bitcoin or only reinforce its structure?

I cannot say this any clearer. There are ~1.854871 x10^43 Planck “Blocks” (of Time) in 1 second. Time is literally quantized, thus all formalism of quantum mechanics is falsified as it pre-supposes continuous time. Why are we even talking about a quantum threat to Bitcoin?

GM Nostr. Serious question: Why does quantizing time instantly break the entire formalism of quantum mechanics, specifically Schrödinger’s equation and the Hamiltonian framework? Quantum Mechanics was supposed to quantize everything, yet it inexplicably left time as a smooth, continuous parameter. How can you claim a fully quantized universe while the one dimension required for all quantization, time itself, remains unquantized? Make it make sense. #asknostr

Discrete, quantized time collapses the entire formalism of quantum mechanics. If time advances in finite steps (blocks) then Schrödinger’s equation is no longer valid, because it requires a continuous time parameter; ∂ψ/∂t, requires an underlying smoothness that discrete time cannot supply. The modern definition of superposition, which depends on continuous unitary evolution, fails. Decoherence no longer describes the smoothing of continuous amplitudes but becomes a stepwise thermodynamic transition. Every model of quantum computation built entirely on continuous-time Hamiltonian evolution becomes formally incorrect. It is profoundly ironic: the moment you quantize time itself, the whole formalism of “quantized physics” collapses, revealing that the field quantized everything except the one quantity whose discreteness would actually matter. A true Tower of Babel. The question becomes, is Bitcoin empirical evidence of discrete time?