dc.contributor.convenor | H.-T. Elze | |
dc.contributor.author | Vaccaro, Joan A | |
dc.contributor.editor | Elze, HT | |
dc.contributor.editor | Diosi, L | |
dc.contributor.editor | Fronzoni, L | |
dc.contributor.editor | Halliwell, J | |
dc.contributor.editor | Yearsley, J | |
dc.contributor.editor | Prati, E | |
dc.contributor.editor | Vitiello, G | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T11:16:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T11:16:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.date.modified | 2011-09-15T05:46:55Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1742-6588 | |
dc.identifier.refuri | http://mail.df.unipi.it/~elze/DICE2010.html | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1088/1742-6596/306/1/012057 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/40811 | |
dc.description.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 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. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.format.extent | 86325 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Institute of Physics Publishing | |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofconferencename | 5th International Workshop on Decoherence, Information, Complexity and Entropy (DICE) - Space-Time-Matter - Current Issues in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond | |
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitle | 5TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP DICE2010: SPACE-TIME-MATTER - CURRENT ISSUES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS AND BEYOND | |
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom | 2010-09-13 | |
dc.relation.ispartofdateto | 2010-09-17 | |
dc.relation.ispartoflocation | Tuscany, ITALY | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 306 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Condensed matter physics | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Quantum physics not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Other physical sciences | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 510103 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 5104 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 510899 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 5199 | |
dc.title | Unidirectionality of time induced by T violation | |
dc.type | Conference output | |
dc.type.description | E1 - Conferences | |
dc.type.code | E - Conference Publications | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Sciences, School of Natural Sciences | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 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. | |
gro.date.issued | 2011 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Vaccaro, Joan A. | |