Objective Space and Subjective Time

15.3.2026

A quanta of time (assuming that time is indeed quantized) is the interval between two moments of time, the Planck time. The duration of each moment is zero. Each moment is no more than a 'frame' in an 'ongoing film'.

This means that time is, in essence, the experience of change (from one frame to the next). In and of itself, time is no more than zero-nothing-zero. Or, in other words, time does not really 'exist'. It is a subjective experience.

This is not the case with regard to space. At present, it is not known whether space is quantized (discrete) or continuous. If quantized (like time, rendering spacetime a uniform whole), each quanta of space, the Planck length, is theoretically measurable. It is 'something', not 'nothing' like time (whose measure is only the empty interval between two moments of zero time).

So, relatively, space is 'objective' whereas time is 'subjective'. Spacetime unites the object with the subject, 'reality' with 'memory'.