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SUMMARY:“Insights into Quantum Time Reversal from the Classical Schrödinger Equation”
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Abstract: The need to implement time reversal via complex conjugation in quantum theory has always been a bit of a puzzle. Why should <em>i</em> go to <em>-i</em> under temporal reflection when it has no spatiotemporal dimensions? In the talk I&rsquo\;ll provide a new explanation. I begin with the little-appreciated fact that classical statistical mechanics has exactly the same issue when it is represented in the &ldquo\;quantum-looking&rdquo\; classical Schrodinger equation of Schiller and Rosen. Since we know what is going on classically\, it is possible to extricate ourselves from this puzzle. I then take the classical solution&rsquo\;s counterpart in the quantum context. No doubt this last step will be controversial because it involves invoking an interpretation of quantum theory. If I&rsquo\;m right\, the puzzle over time reversal in quantum theory arises because standard quantum mechanics gives us only &ldquo\;half&rdquo\; a theory.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Jacob Barandes:
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