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They're also (as far as I understand it) not actually continuous motion. They just have much smaller increments of movement than a single second.


It's still continuous, as even when fully ticking, it still goes from point a to b passing through all the in between points... well, up to planck length at least...

Ticking just makes the motion jerky/abrupt, not discontinuous/discreet...


Ooh, alright, you win this one, but only on a technicality. I won't mention the fact that liquid crystals are also in a constant state of motion while under power ;-)


> up to planck length at least...

Well, we actually do not know that...


It seems there are mechanisms with fully continuous motion, eg: https://www.grand-seiko.com/global-en/about/movement/springd...


Is it "fully continuous" if it has a discret electronic controller correcting it all the time?




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