Abstract: | A fundamental difficulty in theoretical physics is the dual and apparently incompatible interpretations of radiation as showing both continuous and extensive wave properties but also those of discrete atomic or smaller individual particles. Some of these contradictions are outlined. The explanation offered is of a quantized nature of time; units to=h/moc2 for a particle at rest, and of similar interval unit so when in relative motion, with conventional relativistic corrections. For many purposes this form of quantization replaces the need for a wave concept which then appears as a mathematical approach, chosen to avoid the physical concept of an intrinsicc time for any particle, just as we have for its intrinsic mass, spin and electrical charge. to and so are directly related to its frequency, energy and mass. The uncertainty principle and interference relations follow directly from this model, without any physical wave concept. |