Broken symmetry: Answering the solace of quantum
October 7, 2008
NASA file photo of a star formation. Humans like the comfort of symmetry -- the identical image in the mirror, the matching wings of the baroque mansion, the equal numbers in opposing football teams.
Humans like the comfort of symmetry -- the identical image in the mirror, the matching wings of the baroque mansion, the equal numbers in opposing football teams.
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But then again, I hate designing anything that involves prime numbers.
Seriously?!? who designs something to be 13" long?
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Someone who counts in centimeters?
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When energy manifests as mass, it can only take the structure of a platonic solid - there are only 5 platonic solids. The human race has know thins for thousands of years.
- for example this physical reality is a spherical dodecahedron.
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We should consider, the most pronounced CP-symmetry violation exhibits the weak nuclear force, which works just at the small distance scale. But at the very beginning whole the Universe was hot and tiny, too. All forces were nearly equivalent and long distance interactions under such circumstances. Therefore the CP-violation was much more pronounced, then today.
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We should consider evolutionary history during considering of every creation. From existing perspective it seems quite unprobable, the living matter could evolve from inorganic matter spontaneously. But at the very beginning of evolution the real conditions could appear a quite differently and the formation of live could be a spontaneous process.
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It simmilar to observation of laser ray inside of foggy environment. If the atmosfere will be quite clear, we could see anything. If it will be cloudy too much, we could see anything as well at distance, because of dispersion. Therefore here exists a certain optimal density of density gradients, which enables us to see as most from random Universe, as possible. But this reality will be always distored and violated by some asymmetry because of presence of Aether fluctuations. It's tic for tat.
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Such field would stop every motion in it immediatelly, wouldn't it?
Higgs mechanism works somewhat differently, being proposed as an analogy of classical physics mechanism, explaining the unexpectably large effective electron mass during it's motion through electron fluid in metals (the Brout-Englert-Higgs, Higgs-Kibble or Anderson-Higgs mechanism).
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By analogous way, if we remove metastable mixture of matter and antimatter from gravitational field fast (for example by radiation pressure of quasars), a subtle portion of antimatter can survive and it will anihillate later. Therefore we can observe the signals of anihilation radiation from centers of galaxies, where cool quasar remnants ("black holes") persists. Of course, here are some other explanations available, but this one looks well for me. Maybe we will able to mine this antimatter in future as a source of energy by the same way, like fossil carbon today.
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