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I don't understand anything about this, or even basic physics, but I clicked on one of the videos on the page and the speaker used the terms "reversible dynamic
by gavinray 5y ago
I don't understand anything about this, or even basic physics, but I clicked on one of the videos on the page and the speaker used the terms "reversible dynamics" and "quantum" so I think you might be right?
Timestamp is 00:00-02:15 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go2EO9l_L3o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go2EO9l_L3o
From one of the talks linked at the bottom, titled:
"Interview with Maria Violaris. A short introduction to Constructor Theory’s application to irreversibility in homogeneisation machines."
Sorry for poor punctuation, I copy-pasted from YouTube's transcript:
[INTERVIEWER] what does it mean that the dynamical laws of physics are time reversible and
specifically what does this mean in the context of quantum physics?
[RESEARCHER] yeah so the the dynamical laws of physics being reversible is something that we
see not just with quantum physics but also with normal classical physics with
classical mechanics and electromagnetism. there's this property that when we
look at the dynamical laws they don't distinguish between a process happening
forward in time and the process happening backwards in time. so if we look at
any system around us and we zoom into what's happening to the particles, and
then if you played a video of them interacting forwards in time and you reversed
it, the dynamical laws let us allow these interactions to happen both ways and
times.
...
[RESEARCHER] the way that happens in quantum theory specifically is that, any interaction
that's allowed within quantum theory, the reverse interaction is also allowed
within quantum theory. so any process that happens, that we use quantum
mechanics to describe, then we can also use those equations to describe the
reverse process happening. so that's how we see this -- this reversibility is a
property inherent in the laws of quantum mechanics