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dc.contributor.convenorH.-T. Elze
dc.contributor.authorVaccaro, Joan A
dc.contributor.editorElze, HT
dc.contributor.editorDiosi, L
dc.contributor.editorFronzoni, L
dc.contributor.editorHalliwell, J
dc.contributor.editorYearsley, J
dc.contributor.editorPrati, E
dc.contributor.editorVitiello, G
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:16:29Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:16:29Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2011-09-15T05:46:55Z
dc.identifier.issn1742-6588
dc.identifier.refurihttp://mail.df.unipi.it/~elze/DICE2010.html
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1742-6596/306/1/012057
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/40811
dc.description.abstractThe 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.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherInstitute of Physics Publishing
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofconferencename5th International Workshop on Decoherence, Information, Complexity and Entropy (DICE) - Space-Time-Matter - Current Issues in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitle5TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP DICE2010: SPACE-TIME-MATTER - CURRENT ISSUES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS AND BEYOND
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom2010-09-13
dc.relation.ispartofdateto2010-09-17
dc.relation.ispartoflocationTuscany, ITALY
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofvolume306
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCosmology and extragalactic astronomy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCondensed matter physics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchQuantum physics not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther physical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode510103
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5104
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode510899
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5199
dc.titleUnidirectionality of time induced by T violation
dc.typeConference output
dc.type.descriptionE1 - Conferences
dc.type.codeE - Conference Publications
gro.facultyGriffith 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.
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gro.griffith.authorVaccaro, Joan A.


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