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This paper develops a conditional framework for understanding the emergence of measurable physical structure from a pre-metric domain. Contemporary physics provides powerful and precise descriptions of relations among already-defined…

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We show that the scale dependence of the fluctuations of the natural time itself under time reversal provides a useful tool for the discrimination of seismic electric signals (critical dynamics) from noises emitted from man made sources as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. A. Varotsos , N. V. Sarlis , E. S. Skordas , M. S. Lazaridou

In quantum mechanics the time dimension is treated as a parameter, while the three space dimensions are treated as observables. This assumption is both untested and inconsistent with relativity. From dimensional analysis, we expect quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 John Ashmead

The possibility of variations of the values of fundamental constants is a phenomenon predicted by a number of scenarios beyond General Relativity. This can happen if ``our'' fundamental constants are not the actual constants of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-12 Cosimo Bambi

Time has a fundamentally different character in quantum mechanics and in general relativity. In quantum theory events unfold in a fixed time order while in general relativity temporal order is influenced by the distribution of matter. When…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Magdalena Zych , Fabio Costa , Igor Pikovski , Caslav Brukner

A fundamental description of time can be consistent not only with the usual monotonic behavior but also with a periodic physical clock variable, coupled to the degrees of freedom of a system evolving in time. Generically, one would in fact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Martin Bojowald , Luiz Martinez , Garrett Wendel

The physical mechanism of phenomenon is explained as a result of inequality of forward and reversed processes in optics. The importance of experimental study of its invariance relation is discussed.

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Kuz'menko

The direct and indirect experimental proofs of a strong time invariance violation in optics are discussed. Time noninvariance for present day becomes the only real physical base for explanation the origin of the most phenomena in nonlinear…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir A. Kuz'menko

Conservation laws are one of the most generic and useful concepts in physics. In nonlinear optical parametric processes, conservation of photonic energy, momenta and parity often lead to selection rules, restricting the allowed polarization…

It is rarely emphasized in modern physics textbooks that our definitions of space and time have to reflect their complete interdependence. Our intuitive methods of always picturing one-dimensional space as a sum of unit-length rods and of…

General Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 Ibrahim M. Al Abdulmohsin

The electromagnetic interaction is characterised by discrete states for bound systems in contrast to continuous states for unbound systems. The difference merely arises because the characteristic equations do not exhibit the same behaviour…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alasdair Macleod

We present a quantum model for the motion of N point particles, implying nonlocal (i.e., superluminal) influences of external fields on the trajectories, that is nonetheless fully relativistic. In contrast to other models that have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Sheldon Goldstein , Roderich Tumulka

In weakly nonlinear dispersive wave systems, long-time dynamics are typically governed by time resonances, where wave phases evolve coherently due to exact frequency matching. Recent advances in spatio-temporal spectrum measurements,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-09 Michal Shavit , Fabio Pusateri , Zhou Zhang , Yulin Pan , Davide Maestrini , Miguel Onorato , Jalal Shatah

From correlations in measurement outcomes alone, can two otherwise isolated parties establish whether such correlations are atemporal? That is, can they rule out that they have been given the same system at two different times? Classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Minjeong Song , Varun Narasimhachar , Bartosz Regula , Thomas J. Elliott , Mile Gu

Time boundaries (TBs), temporal analogues of spatial interfaces, offer a powerful handle to engineer quantum systems. However, unlike the well-developed stationary scattering theory at spatial interfaces, a unified framework for quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Haiping Hu

Temporal interfaces introduced by abrupt switching of the constitutive parameters of unbounded media enable unusual wave phenomena. So far, their explorations have been mostly limited to lossless media. Yet, non-Hermitian phenomena…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-08 Huanan Li , Shixiong Yin , Emanuele Galiffi , Andrea Alù

We propose a novel framework that interprets the electromagnetic field as a manifestation of spacetime pseudo-curvature, bridging electromagnetism with the geometric principles of general relativity. By introducing modified field equations,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Faik Bouhrik , Tiju Thomas

In this article, we discuss probability of inhomogeneous time in high or low energy scale of physics. Consequently, the possibility was investigated of using theories such as varying speed of light (VSL) and fractal mathematics to build a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-09 S. Davood Sadatian

Invariance under time translation (or stationarity) is probably one of the most important assumptions made when investigating electromagnetic phenomena. Breaking this assumption is expected to open up novel possibilities and result in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-06 M. S. Mirmoosa , T. T. Koutserimpas , G. A. Ptitcyn , S. A. Tretyakov , R. Fleury