This Particle Breaks Time Symmetry

Increasing entropy is NOT the only process that’s asymmetric in time.
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Original paper on parity violation by the weak force by Lee and Yang:
http://www.physics.utah.edu/~belz/phys5110/PhysRev.104.254.pdf

More on B-meson oscillations and time reversal violation:
Physics World Article: http://ve42.co/TimeReversal
Original paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.1742.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_meson

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