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  • Unidirectionality of time induced by T violation

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    Vaccaro, Joan A
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    Vaccaro, Joan A.
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    The physical nature of time has been an enigma for centuries. Despite the progress made in linking various arrows of time together, the underlying reason for the observed direction of time has remained a deep mystery. However, an increasing number of experiments are confirming a violation of time reversal invariance (T) in meson decay processes. T violation represents a fundamental break in the symmetry between the past and future. I show here that such processes induce destructive interference between different paths that the universe can take through time. The interference eliminates all paths except for two that represent ...
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    The physical nature of time has been an enigma for centuries. Despite the progress made in linking various arrows of time together, the underlying reason for the observed direction of time has remained a deep mystery. However, an increasing number of experiments are confirming a violation of time reversal invariance (T) in meson decay processes. T violation represents a fundamental break in the symmetry between the past and future. I show here that such processes induce destructive interference between different paths that the universe can take through time. The interference eliminates all paths except for two that represent continuously forwards and continuously backwards time evolution. These results illustrate that there are previously-unknown large-scale physical effects arising from the T violation processes in meson decay. Moreover these effects offer a solution to the age-old problem of the cause of the unidirectionality of time.
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    Conference Title
    5TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP DICE2010: SPACE-TIME-MATTER - CURRENT ISSUES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS AND BEYOND
    Volume
    306
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/306/1/012057
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2011. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. It is posted here with permission of the copyright owner[s] for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this paper please refer to the conference website or contact the authors.
    Subject
    Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy
    Condensed matter physics
    Quantum physics not elsewhere classified
    Other physical sciences
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/40811
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