TY - JOUR
T1 - Response to Bryan Roberts
T2 - A new perspective on T violation
AU - Ashtekar, Abhay
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I would like to thank Bryan Roberts for stimulating discussions, John Collins for a valuable e-mail exchange and Emily Grosholz, John Norton and Tom Pashby for raising insightful questions that have improved this presentation. Additional thanks are due to Emily Grosholz for her leadership in bringing together physicists and philosophers for a lively workshop. This work was supported in part by the NSF Grant PHY-1205388 and the Eberly research funds of Penn state.
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - It is surprising that the fundamental, microscopic laws of Nature are not invariant under time reversal. In his article, Three Merry Roads to T-. Violation, Dr. Bryan Roberts provided a succinct summary of the theoretical frameworks normally used to interpret the results of the experiments that established this fact. They all rely on the detailed structure of quantum mechanics. In this 'response' to Dr. Robert's talk, I will show that these experiments can be interpreted using a much more general framework. Consequently, should quantum mechanics be eventually replaced by a new paradigm, e.g., because of quantum gravity, these experiments could still be used to argue that the microscopic laws violate T invariance.
AB - It is surprising that the fundamental, microscopic laws of Nature are not invariant under time reversal. In his article, Three Merry Roads to T-. Violation, Dr. Bryan Roberts provided a succinct summary of the theoretical frameworks normally used to interpret the results of the experiments that established this fact. They all rely on the detailed structure of quantum mechanics. In this 'response' to Dr. Robert's talk, I will show that these experiments can be interpreted using a much more general framework. Consequently, should quantum mechanics be eventually replaced by a new paradigm, e.g., because of quantum gravity, these experiments could still be used to argue that the microscopic laws violate T invariance.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.07.001
DO - 10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.07.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84949312820
VL - 52
SP - 16
EP - 20
JO - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
JF - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
SN - 1355-2198
ER -