Time crystals can be classified as either discrete or continuous. An external periodic force drives discrete time crystals, while continuous time crystals emerge from the collective and self-sustained ...

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 question of whether space and time are discrete or continuous, and whether there's a smallest possible length scale, is still unanswered.

Samuel Seth Demel, Juan Du, SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELS FOR SOME DATA SETS IN CONTINUOUS SPACE AND DISCRETE TIME, Statistica Sinica, Vol. 25, No. 1 (January 2015), pp. 81-98 ...