This Letter describes the way that metastable systems escape from traps. Brief periods during which the system apparently runs backwards in time play a crucial role. These ideas are applied to a model for one of nature's most obviously irreversible phenomena, the shattering of a body by a crack.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Michael Marder (1995) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: