{"id":606228,"date":"2019-04-15T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=71553362e47aec15fde7db625bb9a132"},"modified":"2019-04-15T05:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T09:00:01","slug":"the-discrete-time-physics-hiding-inside-our-continuous-time-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=606228","title":{"rendered":"The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-time world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists believe that time is continuous, not discrete\u2014roughly speaking, they believe that it does not progress in &#8220;chunks,&#8221; but rather &#8220;flows,&#8221; smoothly and continuously. So they often model the dynamics of physical systems as continuous-time &#8220;Markov processes,&#8221; named after mathematician Andrey Markov. Indeed, scientists have used these processes to investigate a range of real-world processes from folding proteins, to evolving ecosystems, to shifting financial markets, with astonishing success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists believe that time is continuous, not discrete&mdash;roughly speaking, they believe that it does not progress in &#8220;chunks,&#8221; but rather &#8220;flows,&#8221; smoothly and continuously. So they often model the dynamics of physical systems as continuous-time &#8220;Markov processes,&#8221; named after mathematician Andrey Markov. Indeed, scientists have used these processes to investigate a range of real-world processes from folding proteins, to evolving ecosystems, to shifting financial markets, with astonishing success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606229,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606228\/revisions\/606229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}