Associate Professor Joan Vaccaro, of Griffith University’s Centre for Quantum Dynamics Credit: Griffith University
New research from Griffith University’s Centre for Quantum Dynamics is broadening perspectives on time and space. A/Prof Joan Vaccaro challenges the long-held presumption that time evolution—the incessant unfolding of the universe over time—is an elemental part of Nature. She suggests there may be a deeper origin due to a difference between the directions of time: to the future and to the past.
“If you want to know where the universe came from and where it’s going, you need to know about time,” says Associate Professor Vaccaro.
“Experiments on subatomic particles over the past 50 years ago show that Nature doesn’t treat both directions of time equally...
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