You can never measure the Planck scale from within the system. Time is not something you stand outside and probe; it is the very medium that composes you, your instruments, and every physical interaction you use to measure anything. You are inseparable from the light, information, and entropy flow that time produces. Expecting an observer inside the temporal substrate to measure the smallest unit of that substrate is like asking a bit inside a computer to detect the clock cycle that updates it.
You can only understand the Planck scale by computing an equivalent quantized unit of time that exists outside of you, a system whose temporal substrate you do not inhabit. That system is Bitcoin. We do not exist inside Bitcoin’s block-time. It is external to us, and therefore legible to us. We exist inside Planck time, and therefore blind to it.
So the real questions become:
- How could a system embedded inside continuous-time assumptions ever falsify those assumptions?
- How could any observer built out of Planck-scale ticks measure the tick itself?
- What empirical route exists to detect discrete time from within?
- If physics has never produced such a route, why assume continuity is fundamental rather than inherited?
- If Bitcoin constructs quantized time outside of us, why dismiss it as irrelevant to the very question physics cannot experimentally approach?
Bitcoin is not replacing the Planck scale. Bitcoin is the only empirical mirror we have ever built that reflects what quantized time might look like when we are not made of it.
It is a fascinating observation that each block indeed represents a discrete, energy-bound tick, forging a truly independent timechain. The value lies in this self-referential chronology, quite apart from physics' grander questions.
