Year: 2022

REFLECTIONS. “Yet away I turn myself to the holy, ineffable, mysterious Night. Afar lies the world sunk in a deep vault below; desert and solitary is its place. Deep sadness breathes through the chords of the breast. In drops of dew will I sink down and mingle with the dust. The depths of memory, the wishes of youth, the dreams of childhood, the short joys and vain hopes of the whole span of life, come forth in gray robes, like the evening mist after the setting of the sun.” (Novalis, 1772-1801). https://lnkd.in/dNhZS24Q View in LinkedIn

The beautiful slugs have come out of their long summer hiding in the damp weather. View in LinkedIn

PREDICTION. “With the violation of CP invariance, it is generally believed on the grounds of the CPT theorem that T invariance is also violated.” https://lnkd.in/dqXS2nnQ View in LinkedIn

VALIDATION NOT IN SIGHT. “However, an explicit proof of the violation of T invariance in the weak interactions would still be desirable. It is possible to think of such experiments, but unfortunately none seems feasible in the near future.” https://lnkd.in/dqXS2nnQ View in LinkedIn

TIME AND ENTROPY. “If time-reversal invariance is violated, is it necessary to re-evaluate the traditional concepts of statistical physics, in particular the concept of entropy?” https://lnkd.in/dqXS2nnQ View in LinkedIn

TIME IS DISCONNECTED FROM ENTROPY. “Fortunately the answer to this question is simple. Entropy belongs to the realm of equilibrium statistical physics, within which time-reversal invariance plays no role.” https://lnkd.in/dqXS2nnQ View in LinkedIn

SNIFF TEST. “Consequently, although violation of time-reversal invariance allows a distinction to be made in elementary particle weak interactions between the past and the future, such a distinction is unrelated to our daily consciousness of the past and the future.” https://lnkd.in/dstWYyq5 View in LinkedIn

TIME PAST AND TIME FUTURE. “The latter is a result purely of the statistical phenomenon of entropy increase.” https://lnkd.in/dqXS2nnQ View in LinkedIn

UNIFYING THEORY. “Reviewing what we have learned of the symmetry exhibited by elementary particles in their strong interactions and the asymmetry in their weak interactions, one is tempted to ask whether an integrated pattern is in sight.” https://lnkd.in/dqXS2nnQ View in LinkedIn

ENORMOUS REWRITE OF SUCH A THEORY. “Judging from the beautiful logical perfection and the profound experimental consequences of the successes of symmetry considerations in physics, one is entitled to believe that such a pattern, when it emerges, would transmute the whole enterprise.” https://lnkd.in/dqXS2nnQ View in LinkedIn