Tick Tack

Distance is tied up to the electrical force, and time is related to distance as follows:

Time = Distance/Speed of light

This means that time is intimately tied up to distance in such a way that if distance was to change due to a change in the electric force, time would change with it.

In order to measure time, distance is required, and distance is only meaningful between two points fixed in their relative position to each other.

We cannot use the distance between two photons as a yardstick, because that distance varies. We have to use inertial matter.

The smallest unit of time is in other words tied up to the smallest unit of distance inside inertial matter. It is the time it takes for a photon to travel from one of Morton Spears' quanta to another.

If something happens quicker than this, it is instantaneous. Not because it happened infinitely fast, but because it happened so fast that it cannot be measured.

To measure time, something has to move from a to b. At a, the clock goes tick. At b, the clock goes tack. For a clock that measures the smallest possible unit of time, anything that happens between the tick and the tack has no time associated with it.

A photon bouncing between two walls, separated by the smallest possible unit of distance, does not spend any measurable time at either wall. The only measurable time is the crossing of the tiny void between the two walls. If it makes a tick at one wall and a tack on the other wall, the time spent in between is impossible to subdivide further.

This is why photons change energy instantaneously.

The change in size of a photon happens over a distance that is smaller then the distance from one quantum to another quantum in an atomic nucleus.

An atomic nucleus on the other hand has inertia because the change in size takes place over a distance that does cover time. If an atomic nucleus consists of N quanta, there is N - 1 number of time units involved. If they are serially informed of their change in energy, we get that the inertia of an object is directly proportional to the number of quanta it consists of.

Photon crossing an electron