An asymmetric world

Oliver Penrose
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Oliver Penrose: emeritus professor in the Department of Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University

Nature, 2005, vol. 438, issue 7070, 919-919

Abstract: At the level of particles, things can happen in reverse, because particles obey time-symmetric laws of mechanics. But then why does matter, which is made up of these building blocks, behave irreversibly?

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1038/438919a

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