POSSIBLE DEFORMATION OF TIME RUN INDUCED BY CHANGE OF PARTICLE NUMBER

A report is presented on some developments of the author's recent conj ecture that a change of the overall particle number in a localized phy sical process induces in its neighbourhood a small deformation of the time run. This is a hypothetic quantum effect caused by a thermodynami c-type mechanism not present in the Einsteinian classical theory of gr avitation, but natural if the familiar analogy between the thermal equ ilibrium and the unitary quantum time evolution is accepted as a physi cally profound correspondence.