{"id":133015,"date":"2021-12-24T20:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T04:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/scientists-are-investigating-if-time-warps-near-a-nuclear-reactor"},"modified":"2021-12-24T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T04:23:22","slug":"scientists-are-investigating-if-time-warps-near-a-nuclear-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/scientists-are-investigating-if-time-warps-near-a-nuclear-reactor","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Investigating If Time Warps Near a Nuclear Reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eXaBCNQMPsw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of theoretical physicists at Griffiths University in Australia are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ansto.gov.au\/news\/neutrinos-atomic-clocks-and-an-experiment-to-detect-a-time-dilation\" class=\"\">investigating a radical quantum theory<\/a> of time which posits that there is a asymmetry between time and space.<\/p>\n<p>To explain why time points from the past to the future, scientists have proposed that under the second law of thermodynamics, time itself moves towards increased entropy, a measurement of disorder in a system.<\/p>\n<p>But the new Australian hypothesis, first proposed by Australian physicist Joan Vaccaro in 2016, suggests instead that this increased entropy isn\u2019t the root cause of the direction the \u201carrow of time\u201d moves \u2014 it\u2019s just a symptom of the flow of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of theoretical physicists at Griffiths University in Australia are investigating a radical quantum theory of time which posits that there is a asymmetry between time and space. To explain why time points from the past to the future, scientists have proposed that under the second law of thermodynamics, time itself moves towards increased [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}