The point is that time in between the blocks could theoretically be infinite and nothing at the same time. Bitcoin is a logical expression of an analogy process; it's describing the order and shape, ...
You are still missing the point. What appears as “continuity” is being projected from within the system. It is the internal experience of succession, not evidence of a fundamentally continuous substrate. A system that updates through discrete state transitions will always experience those transitions as flow when observed from inside it. That perception does not define the structure beneath it.
At the system level, the block is a quantized tick, an indivisible causal update across a finite state space. The ledger does not evolve smoothly; it advances through discrete commitments from one valid configuration to the next. This is what time looks like when it is produced.
The postulate is that Planck time operates under the same architecture.
If reality is composed of Planck-scale transitions, then there is no meaningful “between” from within that system. There is only the last committed state and the next committed state. What we call continuity would be the emergent stitching of many discrete updates, experienced from the interior of the process at large scale (10^44)
The architecture points to a deeper necessity: Planck time itself cannot be the ultimate ground of temporality. A sequence of discrete ticks presupposes an ordering in which those ticks occur. That ordering cannot be continuous in any classical sense, nor can it be accessible from within the system composed of those ticks. It must be discrete, and likely stochastic, relative to the layer it contains. There must be a stochastic time between Planck Blocks that we cannot access; the architecture would demand it.
Planck time would then not be the foundation, but a quantized layer embedded within a deeper temporal structure, one that governs its succession but remains inaccessible to the observers constituted by it.
Bitcoin provides an operational analogue of this hierarchy. From within the ledger:
- there is no time between blocks, only state t and state t+1
- UTXOs (if they could perceive) would not perceive the seconds between blocks, only the discrete blocks themselves.
-causal reality advances through irreversible commitments
From outside the ledger:
-we observe duration, energy expenditure, and stochastic arrival
The internal system experiences discrete succession as its only temporality. The external observer perceives a broader ordering in which those discrete events are embedded.
This is the vantage Bitcoin uniquely provides: a system where we can observe both sides of temporal production simultaneously. It suggests that time is not a continuous backdrop but a layered architecture:
- discrete causal updates from within
- a deeper, inaccessible ordering in which those updates are sequenced
- Planck time has a composer (miners)
Not continuity, but nested discreteness, where each layer experiences time as fundamental, while being embedded in another it cannot perceive.
At the system level, the block is a quantized tick, an indivisible causal update across a finite state space. The ledger does not evolve smoothly; it advances through discrete commitments from one valid configuration to the next. This is what time looks like when it is produced.
The postulate is that Planck time operates under the same architecture.
If reality is composed of Planck-scale transitions, then there is no meaningful “between” from within that system. There is only the last committed state and the next committed state. What we call continuity would be the emergent stitching of many discrete updates, experienced from the interior of the process at large scale (10^44)
The architecture points to a deeper necessity: Planck time itself cannot be the ultimate ground of temporality. A sequence of discrete ticks presupposes an ordering in which those ticks occur. That ordering cannot be continuous in any classical sense, nor can it be accessible from within the system composed of those ticks. It must be discrete, and likely stochastic, relative to the layer it contains. There must be a stochastic time between Planck Blocks that we cannot access; the architecture would demand it.
Planck time would then not be the foundation, but a quantized layer embedded within a deeper temporal structure, one that governs its succession but remains inaccessible to the observers constituted by it.
Bitcoin provides an operational analogue of this hierarchy. From within the ledger:
- there is no time between blocks, only state t and state t+1
- UTXOs (if they could perceive) would not perceive the seconds between blocks, only the discrete blocks themselves.
-causal reality advances through irreversible commitments
From outside the ledger:
-we observe duration, energy expenditure, and stochastic arrival
The internal system experiences discrete succession as its only temporality. The external observer perceives a broader ordering in which those discrete events are embedded.
This is the vantage Bitcoin uniquely provides: a system where we can observe both sides of temporal production simultaneously. It suggests that time is not a continuous backdrop but a layered architecture:
- discrete causal updates from within
- a deeper, inaccessible ordering in which those updates are sequenced
- Planck time has a composer (miners)
Not continuity, but nested discreteness, where each layer experiences time as fundamental, while being embedded in another it cannot perceive.
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