Hypothetic time -- temperature duality as a hint for modifications in quantum dynamics?

Abstract

The well-known formal analogy between time and absolute temperature, existing on the quantum level, is considered as a profound duality relationship requiring some modifications in the conventional quantum dynamics. They consist of tiny deviations from uniform time run in the physical spacetime, as well as of tiny deviations from unitary time evolution characteristic for the conventional quantum theory. The first deviations are conjectured to be produced by local changes of total average particle number. Then, they imply the second deviations exerting in turn influence upon this particle number. Two examples of the second deviations are described: hypothetic tiny violation of optical theorem for particle scattering, and hypothetic slow variation of the average number of probe particles contained in a sample situated in proximity of a big accelerator (producing abundantly particles on a target).