Planck timeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Planck time (plural Planck times, abbreviation t_P)

1. (physics) A natural unit of time, equivalent to the time it takes light to traverse one Planck length; it is the duration of time at which quantum gravity effects are expected to become significant.
   • 2023 October 9, Dennis Overbye, “The Science Nobel Winners Were Short and Fast”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 12 October 2023:

     As Dr. Feynman noted, there are still shorter scales of time and distance to go before we reach the ultimate limits imposed by quantum physics: the Planck length, 10^-33 of a centimeter, and the Planck time, 10^-43 of a second. Both are named for the German physicist Max Planck, who made the breakthrough that led to quantum mechanics.