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- noun Plural form of
chronon .
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Examples
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One common fiction is to picture hyperspace as a negative image of the universe we see, inhabited by such woolly beasts as - c, contra-charged subnuclear binding energies, and anti-gravitons and anti-chronons.
Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985
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"Why does it do that?" someone asked, and Orion answered mechanically, "There aren't as many chronons as there are photons, and they have a lot more area to cover."
Changed Man and the King of Words Card, Orson Scott 1979
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The chronons were too scattered and the image began to blur and fade.
Changed Man and the King of Words Card, Orson Scott 1979
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The chronon theory would remove the distinction between physical, infinitely divisible duration and psychological time — or rather it would reduce this distinction to that of degree only, the physical “chronons” being of incomparably shorter temporal span than the temporal minima sen
TIME MILI�� ��APEK 1968
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"Further tests showed that the superstring tubes are the primary mechanism by which all gravitrons and chronons are transported, ducted instantaneously -- or faster -- all over the Universe.
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I now add two others, the particles of space I call spations, those of time, chronons. "
The Ideal Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918
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