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Time might actually be Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey…Stuff

November 22, 2012UncategorizedB meson, charge-parity-time, Cosmos, timeGreg Laden

BaBar data recently analyzed might confirm that time is wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.

If you are a B meson, time may not run the same in both directions for you. This is based on a report in Physical Review Letters called “Observation of Time-Reversal Violation in the B0 Meson System” which has this abstract:

Screen Shot 2012-11-20 at 11.42.54 AM — I had to use a screen shot because I can't type in all that wiggly wobbly formula stuff.

Nature Blogs’s Eugenie Samuel Reich explains this HERE. If that is not clear, just watch this video: