Time Pattern as a Pseudo-Scalar (C₂)

In N. A. Kozyrev's September 1967 paper, the "time pattern" is represented by the ratio C₂ = dx/dt, where dx is the arbitrarily small but nonzero spatial separation of a cause and its effect and dt is the arbitrarily small but nonzero time separation of fixed sign. Kozyrev argues that C₂ must be a pseudo-scalar: a quantity that changes sign under mirror reflection.

Consequences Kozyrev draws

• Basic theorem. A world with the opposite time pattern is equivalent to our world reflected in a mirror.
• Surface form. In the Earth-rotation extension, the source writes the surface time pattern as +iC₂ − j(u − u)/ (the source text is incomplete at this point, with a translator's note indicating a missing line).
• Relation to the fine-structure constant. The paper relates C₂ to the fine-structure constant through the ratio C₂/C₁.
• Parity context. Kozyrev appeals to weak-interaction parity-violation experiments as consistent with a directional time pattern. See Parity Nonconservation as Context (Kozyrev).

The numerical value Kozyrev settles on is given at Kozyrev C₂ Constant. See also Causal Mechanics (Kozyrev's Asymmetrical Mechanics).