This Particle Breaks Time Symmetry

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This Particle Breaks Time Symmetry

Post by PsychoSerenity » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:08 pm

Admittedly I've never really got into particle physics, but I was really surprised by this one as it seems such a massively important fact that has been known about for some decades, yet I'd never even heard of it. Increasing entropy is apparently NOT the only process that's asymmetric in time.



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Post by NineBerry » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:21 pm

Physics totally goes over my head.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:53 pm

Between us my brother and I know pretty much everything there is to know about particle physics.
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Post by Rum » Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:51 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:Between us my brother and I know pretty much everything there is to know about particle physics.
So, you brother knows all about particle physics. :hehe:

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Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Dec 17, 2017 5:20 pm

My brother has forgotten more than I ever knew in the first place. :(
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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:21 am

Naughty particle! :nono:
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Post by NineBerry » Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:22 am

Who breaks something, has to pay for it!!!

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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:22 pm

Though this video from DrPhysicsA was interesting. The Einstein Podolsky Rosen (EPR) Paradox...



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Post by Sean Hayden » Sat Oct 20, 2018 8:03 pm

What if part of their behavior is determined in another dimension?Assume there is a field of sorts that "holds" them, and a change in one alters the field and thereby the behavior of another. It is instantaneous because of some relationship between this other dimension and where we are.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Oct 20, 2018 8:08 pm

If you could confirm that experimentally, and in so doing resolve Bell's Inequality, you'd not only be assured of a Nobel but you would never have to pay for a drink ever again! :D
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Post by Sean Hayden » Sat Oct 20, 2018 8:10 pm

I'm on it! :lol:

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Post by Rum » Sat Oct 20, 2018 8:29 pm

It’s all about the stuff we think of as real actually being the fizzy bit of another domain.

A bit like the foam on a latte where the coffee is the domain in question and the material universe and time is the foam.

Sorted, though who grinds the coffee beans is still a bit opaque..

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Post by laklak » Sat Oct 20, 2018 11:25 pm

The Unground Grinder.
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