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Experiment sees the arrow of time – at last!

01 Dec 1998

The classical laws of physics cannot distinguish between the past and the future, but now experiments at CERN have confirmed that time-reversal symmetry is broken in neutral kaons.

  Everyday experience tells us that it is impossible to travel backwards in time, no matter wha

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Nick Mavromatos in the Department of Physics at Oxford University, UK.
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