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    Quantum wave

    Sat 11 Feb 2023, 10AM - 5PM

    Relational clocks, decoherence, and the arrow of time

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    black holes and gravitational lensing

    Fri 17 Feb 2023, 2PM - 3PM

    The second law of thermodynamics: from black-hole singularities to conformal cyclic cosmology

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    A quantum wave

    First blue sky thinking workshop: The arrow of time

    An online workshop that brought together scientists and philosophers from around the world working on foundational problems relating to the arrow of time in theoretical physics, philosophy and biology, to discuss current problems and open issues in the field.

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    Manifest time and the laws of physics

    Theoretical quantum physicist, Professor Gerard Milburn, outlined in his talk an apparent conflict between time, as we experience it, "manifest time", and time as it appears in physical law.

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    Loschmidt echoes evidence of the emergence of irreversibility for quantum many-body dynamics in the thermodynamic limit

    Professor Horacio Pastawski joined us to discussed many-body time reversal.

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