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License    • n. A hypothetical quantum or particle of time.
Sorry, no etymologies found.     • A chronon is the length of
time it takes one quantum of energy to push one electron from
one electronic orbit to the next.      The Ideal    • "All this
reminded me that though we-humanity, that is-know the elementary
particles of matter and energy, know the unit of gravity, have
even (so Scotty tells me) identified something called the
chronon which is the smallest possible bit into which time can
be divided, we do not know the elementary unit of consciousness.
Spock Must Die    • "Exactly as the particles of matter are the
smallest pieces of matter that can exist, just as there is no
such thing as a half of an electron, or for that matter, half a
quantum, so the chronon is the smallest possible fragment of
time, and the spation the smallest possible bit of space.
The Ideal    • It uses a particle called the "impious chronon
..."      Living Here