Towards A Physical Basis For The Arrow Of Time And Matter-Anti-Matter Asymmetry
by Steven Gussman ASSUMPTIONS Two broad assumptions will be made: 1. The Wheeler-Feynman hypothesis that anti-matter is merely matter moving backwards in time. 2. That any particle is intrinsically as likely to move in the forward-or-backward direction in the temporal dimension (yielding a space-like time-dimension, part a hyper-space-like four-dimensional universe). HYPOTHESIS The arrow of time is modeled here as arising from the thermodynamic diffusion of particles in the single time-dimension. This diffusion in turn arises from the fact that, while there are no boundaries in the three classical spatial dimensions—diffusion there is not biased in any particular direction, and generally, matter diffuses outward in all directions (particularly as the universe expands), there is a one-sided boundary in the temporal dimension in which 13.8 billion years ago there is a barrier (whereas there is...