Subject: Is space and time discontinuous like matter and energy?

15 years ago I read in a Discover magazine that time and space are 
discontinuous.  The space particle is called a "fermi" (named after you 
know who) and the time particle is called a "chronon".  They are both of 
course very small.  Fermi are arranged in a lattice of some sort.  If a 
matter or energy particle moves, it moves by "disappearing" from one fermi 
and then "reappears" in another.  The chronon concept is even stanger: the 
universe as a whole flashes on and off with each chronon.  When a chronon 
comes "on" the universe "is", when that chronon goes away there is a brief 
interlude when everything ceases to exist, then a new chronon comes into 
existence with a new universe where some of the matter and energy particles 
have "moved" slightly (jumped to a new fermi).  The top speed is one fermi 
per chronon (the speed of light).  Ten chronons per fermi would be one 
tenth the speed of light.  Most matter particles then spend quite a bit of 
"time" (whatever that's supposed to mean) in each fermi.  I have never in 
all my scientific hobbiest reading ever anywhere seen or heard of the 
fermi-chronon concept except that one Discover article.  Have you ever 
heard of this ferm

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