2002/07/04 by Avshalom C. Elitzur, Elitzur, Avshalom C., Shahar Dolev +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0207029
8 pages, 2 figures, requires kluwer package. Presented in Nato Advanced Research Workshop: The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics & Perception, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovak Republic, May 2002
arxiv created 2002/07/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We present some novel results indicating that time's description in present-day physics is deficient. We use Hawking's information-erasure hypothesis to counter his own claim that time's arrow depends only on initial conditions. Next, we propose quantum mechanical experiments that yield inconsistent histories, suggesting that not only events but also entire histories might be governed by a more fundamental dynamics.