{"id":794,"date":"2005-01-07T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2005-01-08T00:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=794"},"modified":"2005-01-07T17:37:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-08T00:37:19","slug":"the-difference-between-time-and-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/01\/07\/the-difference-between-time-and-space\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between Time and Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you really want your head to spin, I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.94.011602\">Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 011602 (2005)<\/a>, &#8220;Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Origin for the Difference Between Time and Space&#8221; by C. Wetterich:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn this Letter we pursue the perhaps radical idea that the difference between time and space arises as a consequence of the \u2018\u2018dynamics\u2019\u2019 of the theory rather than being put in by hand. More precisely, we will discuss a model where the \u2018\u2018classical\u2019\u2019 or \u2018\u2018microscopic\u2019\u2019 action does not make any difference between time and space. The time-space asymmetry is generated only as a property of the ground state and can be associated to spontaneous symmetry breaking.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think this is the first time I have ever seen anyone use SO(128,C).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you really want your head to spin, I recommend Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 011602 (2005), &#8220;Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Origin for the Difference Between Time and Space&#8221; by C. Wetterich: In this Letter we pursue the perhaps radical idea that the difference between time and space arises as a consequence of the \u2018\u2018dynamics\u2019\u2019 of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/01\/07\/the-difference-between-time-and-space\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Difference Between Time and Space&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}