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:
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:
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"...this consensus has been brought about, not by shifts in philosophical preference or by the influence of astrophysical mandarins, but by the pressure of empirical data." -Steven Weinberg
There's a Dennis Overbye article in the Times today with the Web headline "From Fermilab, a New Clue to Explain Human Existence?" which I like to think of as a back-handed tribute to the person who
A Hadron is a kind of particle, made of quarks. There are two kinds of hadrons, baryons (made out of three quarks) and mesons (made out of a quark and a quirky quark known as an antiquark).
"In any case, the number three fitted perfectly the way quarks occur in nature." -Murray Gell-Mann
Tangentially, this, and the episode with the little boy in the gas mask looking for his "mummy," might be the scariest of the current Dr Who episodes.
I liked Sean Carroll's brief take on this as well:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/11/20/time-revers…
I don't even know which episode this one is. I agree about the "Are you my mummy" episode, tho.
Did you notice the later reference to "Are you my mummy"?
That clips comes from the weeping angels episode. "Don't blink!" I did not notice the mummy reference. I think I was too wibbly from all the timey wimey abstract text.
I think the Mummy reference is from a fairly recent episode. They happen to come cross a gas mask for no particular reason, and someone, I think The Doctor, picks it up and puts it half way on and says "Are you my mummy" then they just move on like nothing happened.
OK, sort of as I remembered it but not quite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdjfpriATv4
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.5832v3.pdf
Not enough co-authors.
(But thanks for the link!)
Oooh, we don't have cable so I'm always a year behind everyone, waiting for it to come out on Netflix. I love when the show is self referential.
Me too, just Netflix here