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  2. Time in physics - Wikipedia

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    t is the time between these same two events, but as measured in the stationary reference frame; v is the speed of the moving reference frame relative to the stationary one; c is the speed of light. Moving objects therefore are said to show a slower passage of time. This is known as time dilation.

  3. Discrete time and continuous time - Wikipedia

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    Discrete time views values of variables as occurring at distinct, separate "points in time", or equivalently as being unchanged throughout each non-zero region of time ("time period")—that is, time is viewed as a discrete variable. Thus a non-time variable jumps from one value to another as time moves from one time period to the next.

  4. Discrete-time Fourier transform - Wikipedia

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    The term discrete-time refers to the fact that the transform operates on discrete data, often samples whose interval has units of time. From uniformly spaced samples it produces a function of frequency that is a periodic summation of the continuous Fourier transform of the original continuous function.

  5. Time evolution - Wikipedia

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    Then by the definition of F, F t, s (x) is the state of the system at time t and consequently applying the definition once more, F u, t (F t, s (x)) is the state at time u. But this is also F u, s (x). In some contexts in mathematical physics, the mappings F t, s are called propagation operators or simply propagators.

  6. Continuum (measurement) - Wikipedia

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    In physics, for example, the space-time continuum model describes space and time as part of the same continuum rather than as separate entities. A spectrum in physics, such as the electromagnetic spectrum , is often termed as either continuous (with energy at all wavelengths) or discrete (energy at only certain wavelengths).

  7. Quantum mechanics of time travel - Wikipedia

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    The theoretical study of time travel generally follows the laws of general relativity. Quantum mechanics requires physicists to solve equations describing how probabilities behave along closed timelike curves (CTCs), which are theoretical loops in spacetime that might make it possible to travel through time.

  8. Retarded time - Wikipedia

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    Position vectors r and r′ used in the calculation. Retarded time t r or t′ is calculated with a "speed-distance-time" calculation for EM fields.. If the EM field is radiated at position vector r′ (within the source charge distribution), and an observer at position r measures the EM field at time t, the time delay for the field to travel from the charge distribution to the observer is |r ...

  9. Dynamic light scattering - Wikipedia

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    Hypothetical dynamic light scattering of two samples: Larger particles on the top and smaller particles on the bottom. Dynamic light scattering (DLS) is a technique in physics that can be used to determine the size distribution profile of small particles in suspension or polymers in solution. [1]