Rabu, 24 November 2021

Scientists Are Testing a Mind-Blowing Time Theory in a Nuclear Reactor

Scientists are using nuclear reactors to test a quantum theory that flips our understanding of time on its head.

Physicist Joan Vaccaro first articulated the divisive "quantum theory of time"—that "dynamics may be a phenomenological consequence of a fundamental violation of time reversal symmetry," in her words—a few years ago. But now, researchers can use neutrinos and antineutrinos to measure the passage of time within a powerful nuclear reactor.

Vaccaro has been open about the theory as a far-out educated guess rather than a sure thing, and the findings should be interesting to other scientists either way.

What's going on when time passes? That depends on who you ask, but the passage of time is still a pretty big mystery.

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