Darius Caine

"(…) in Principles of Digital Audio, one of the standard textbooks on the subject. At the end of a section on digital sampling of analogue sound, author Kenneth Pohlmann writes: Time seems to be continuous. However, some physicists have suggested that, like energy and matter, time might come in discrete packets. Just as this book consists of a finite number of atoms and could be converted into a finite amount of energy, the time it takes you to read the book might consist of a finite number of time particles. Specifically, the indivisible period of time might be 1×10−42 second (that is a 1 preceded by a decimal point and 41 zeros). The theory is that no time interval can be shorter than this because the energy required to make the division would be so great that a black hole would be created and the event would be swallowed up inside it. If any of you out there are experimenting in your basements with very high sampling frequencies, please be careful."

- Sterne, Jonathan. “The Death and Life of Digital Audio.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 31.4 (2006): 338-48. (via carvalhais)

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