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'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab - Live Science

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Larissa G. Capella
'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab - Live Science
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Physicist Giovanni Barontini has experimentally demonstrated how time can emerge within an isolated quantum system by creating a 'mini-universe' using ultracold atoms. The study suggests that time may be an internal property of closed systems rather than an external constant.

By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.

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