Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Week 5, CP violation
CP violation is an exception to the rule of time in physics. The neutral kaon decays into different particles when time is going backwards rather than forwards. It does puzzle me once I start thinking about it. If particles inside of the atoms that make us up can do that, how does that affect us on the macrocosmic level? Can these particles travel back in time within us and within other objects? Cp violation points to how our notion to time is relatively limited because we can only experience it in certain ways.
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I agree that we have a very limited notion of time, especially since we have extracted ourselves from the natural cycles of the universe and forced a man-made concept instead.
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