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  • T Violation and the Unidirectionality of Time

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    Vaccaro, Joan A
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    Vaccaro, Joan A.
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    An increasing number of experiments at the Belle, BNL, CERN, DAFNE and SLAC accelerators are confirming the violation of time reversal invariance (T). The violation signifies a fundamental asymmetry between the past and future and calls for a major shift in the way we think about time. Here we show that processes which violate T symmetry 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. Evidence from the accelerator experiments indicates which path ...
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    An increasing number of experiments at the Belle, BNL, CERN, DAFNE and SLAC accelerators are confirming the violation of time reversal invariance (T). The violation signifies a fundamental asymmetry between the past and future and calls for a major shift in the way we think about time. Here we show that processes which violate T symmetry 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. Evidence from the accelerator experiments indicates which path the universe is effectively following. This work may provide fresh insight into the long-standing problem of modeling the dynamics of T violation processes. It suggests that T violation has previously unknown, large-scale physical effects and that these effects underlie the origin of the unidirectionality of time. It may have implications for the Wheeler-DeWitt equation of canonical quantum gravity. Finally it provides a view of the quantum nature of time itself.
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    Journal Title
    Foundations of Physics
    Volume
    41
    Issue
    10
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-011-9568-x
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    © 2011 Springer Netherlands. This is an electronic version of an article published in Foundations of Physics, October 2011, Volume 41, Issue 10, pp 1569-1596. Foundations of Physics is available online at: http://link.springer.com// with the open URL of your article.
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    Mathematical sciences
    Physical sciences
    Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy
    Quantum physics not elsewhere classified
    Philosophy and religious studies
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/43462
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