Anti-matter objection OpposingArgument1 #105365 If the time-asymmetry of thermodynamics were associated with the symmetry violation of the neutral K meson (neutral Kaon) then anti-matter would show the reverse of the normal thermodynamic asymmetry AND no such anti-matter reversal is apparent. |
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- CitationsAdd new citationList by: CiterankMapLink[1] Refutation of neutral kaon explanation
Author: Huw Price - Head of the Center for Time, University of Sydney Cited by: Peter Baldwin 1:31 AM 2 May 2011 GMT Citerank: (6) 100641The Arrow of Time?A map exploring some issues concerning the nature of time that lie at the boundary of physics and philosophy. The map follows up a talk to the Blackheath Philosophy Forum on 2 April 2011 by Huw Price, Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for Time at Sydney University.7F1CEB7, 103807The experience of timeThis branch of the map considers the phenomenology of time - the various ways in which time presents itself directly to our consciousness. Why do we think time has the features indicated by the passage view? The answers will hopefully enable us to connect the phenomenological to the physical.8FFB597, 103810Why do we see an entropy gradient?We find ourselves in an observable universe in which entropy increases consistently in one direction, thereby showing time asymmetry - an arrow of time. Yet the vast majority of underlying dynamical processes are time-symmetric. How to account for this? Two broad approaches are considered here.8FFB597, 103810Why do we see an entropy gradient?We find ourselves in an observable universe in which entropy increases consistently in one direction, thereby showing time asymmetry - an arrow of time. Yet the vast majority of underlying dynamical processes are time-symmetric. How to account for this? Two broad approaches are considered here.8FFB597, 104152Past hypothesisWe inhabit a universe - or part thereof - characterized by a low-entropy past that has enabled the evolution of intelligent observers to occur. This together with Boltzmann's probabilistic argument (see sibling node) implies entropy will increase over time toward thermal equilibrium.109FDEF6, 104155Boltzmann-Schuetz hypothesisBoltzmann and Schuetz claimed that in a universe that is near thermal equilibrium, and given sufficient time, there will be regions where there is a temporary deviation into a low entropy state, from which it will trend back to equilibrium. Anthropic selection accounts for us being in such a region.959C6EF URL: |
Excerpt / Summary "Doesn't this eliminate the puzzle ? No. If the time-asymmetry of thermodynamics were associated with the Tsymmetry violation displayed by the neutral K meson, then anti-matter would show the reverse of the normal thermodynamic asymmetry. Why ? Because PCT symmetry guarantees that if we replace matter by anti-matter (i.e. reverse P and C) and then view the result in reverse time (i.e., reverse T), physics remains the same. So if we replaced matter by anti-matter but didn't reverse time, any intrinsic temporal arrow or T symmetry violation would reverse its apparent direction. In other words, physicists in anti-matter galaxies nd the opposite violations of T-symmetry in weak interactions to those found in our galaxy. So if the thermodynamic arrow were tied to the T-symmetry violation, it too would have to reverse under such a transformation.
But now we have both an apparent falsehood, and a paradox. There's an apparent falsehood because (of course) we don't think that anti-matter behaves anti-thermodynamically. We expect stars in anti-matter galaxies to radiate just like our own sun (as the very idea of an anti-matter galaxy requires, in fact). And there's a paradox, because if this were the right story, what would happen to particles which are their own anti-particles, such as photons ? They would have to behave both thermodynamically and anti-thermodynamically!" |