Tag Archives: time symmetry
Time and the pandemic
There is this idea in physics that the fundamental laws of nature apply the same way for processes moving both forwards and backwards in time. So you can’t actually measure the passage of time by studying these processes. Where does … Continue reading
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Tagged arrow of time, climate change, clock time, coronavirus, coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, entropy, eternity, herd immunity, new coronavirus, novel coronavirus, second law of thermodynamics, time, time symmetry
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Amorphous topological insulators
Physicists from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, have found that topological insulators needn’t always be crystals – as has been thought. Continue reading
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Tagged Adhip Agarwala, amorphous, charge conjugation, conduction band, crystal, crystalline band theory, electrons, parity symmetry, time symmetry, topological insulator, Umklapp scattering, valence, Vijay Shenoy
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