u/In this scene from Swan
Lake, the choreography has a
symmetry with respect to left and
right.
v/C.S. Wu
t/Left-handed and right-handed definitions.
be grotesque. Whatever their aesthetic feelings, they had to change
their opinions about reality when experiments by C.S. Wu et al. showed
that the weak nuclear force violates right-left symmetry! It is still
a mystery why right-left symmetry is observed so scrupulously in
general, but is violated by one particular type of physical process.
686 Chapter 11 Electromagnetism