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It is a great discover I agree, it might not quite fit in the list because it's not so counterintuitive for someone not into particle physics though. There are
by cycomanic 5y ago
It is a great discover I agree, it might not quite fit in the list because it's not so counterintuitive for someone not into particle physics though.
There are actually many examples of things working different for the mirror image, e.g. many medical/chemical compounds work differently based on chirality.
The topic of chirality is fascinating, one of the big puzzles in nature is for example why it so strongly prefers right-handedness.
- goohle 5y agoMaybe nature prefer right-handedness just because it started in North hemisphere.
- Ginden 5y ago> There are actually many examples of things working different for the mirror image, e.g. many medical/chemical compounds work differently based on chirality. It "works different" because you consider only change in one part of system. You change compound, but rest of system stays the same. If you mirror entire system, it works almost the same way (differences due to parity violation by weak force are millions time smaller than required to even detect differences).