This Particle Breaks Time Symmetry
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Editorial Analysis
Increasing entropy is NOT the only process that's asymmetric in time.\nCheck out the book: http://WeHaveNoIdea.com\nThis video was co-written by Daniel Whiteson and Jorge Cham\nYou can also check out PhD Comics: http://phdcomics.com\n\n\nSpecial thanks to Patreon supporters:\nTony Fadell, Donal Botkin, Michael Krugman, Jeff Straathof, Zach Mueller, Ron Neal, Nathan Hansen, Joshua Abenir\n\nSupport Veritasium on Patreon: http://ve42.co/patreon\n\nOriginal paper on parity violation by the weak force by Lee and Yang:\nhttp://www.physics.utah.edu/~belz/phys5110/PhysRev.104.254.pdf\n\nMore on B-meson oscillations and time reversal violation:\nPhysics World Article: http://ve42.co/TimeReversal\nOriginal paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.1742.pdf\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_meson\n\nPhysics consultant: Prof. Stephen Bartlett\n\nStudio filming by Raquel Nuno
