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time reversal

noun

Physics.
  1. the mathematical operation of reversing the direction of time. : T


time reversal

  1. A mathematical operation on the description of a physical system in which the signs of variables representing time are reversed.
  2. Also called time conjugation
  3. See more at invariance
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of time reversal1

First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences

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Whether that’s possible depends on subtle details and is a subject of active research, which I studied recently as the time reversal of a collapse to a black hole, with Paul Chesler, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative.

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In an antiferromagnet, the flipping of spins associated with time reversal changes the pattern of alternating spins.

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Fu, L. & Kane, C. L. Time reversal polarization and a Z2 adiabatic spin pump.

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This supports scientist's models for how antimatter should behave. Some of the basic rules of physics predict that antihydrogen and hydrogen would emit the same light spectra — including Einstein's theory of special relativity, which states that light is the fastest moving thing in the universe; the Standard Model, which explains how elementary particles interact; and something called Charge, Parity, and Time Reversal symmetry, or the CPT theorem, which says that energy levels in matter and antimatter should be the same.

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In addition, it had been assumed that the laws of nature were, in the terms of science, “invariant under time reversal.”

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