TIME ASYMMETRIES IN CLASSICAL AND IN NON-CLASSICAL PHYSICS

A comparative study is made of the eigenvalue problems of electromagnetics and quantum mechanics, with special reference to the operations of spatial inversion P and time inversion T. Electromagnetics, which permits closer agreement with the dictates of relativity (when the latter is extended to P and T), exhibits characteristic differences with respect to quantum mechanics. An evaluation of these distinctions is presented against the backdrop of a choice between absolute scalar action and charge versus pseudoscalar action and charge. © 1979 Plenum Publishing Corporation.