Broken symmetry: Answering the solace of quantum

October 7, 2008
NASA file photo of a star formation

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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ShadowRam
Oct 07, 2008

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I hate symmetry.. its such a constrictive paradigm.

But then again, I hate designing anything that involves prime numbers.

Seriously?!? who designs something to be 13" long?
Szkeptik
Oct 07, 2008

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"Seriously?!? who designs something to be 13" long?"

Someone who counts in centimeters?
NeilFarbstein
Oct 07, 2008

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what was the "book" that was not reversed in the mirror? where did they find it?
thales
Oct 07, 2008

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ShadowRam's point about prime numbers brings up an interesting thought - the universe must be built on a prime number since it's asymmetric. Of course, it could still be symmetric with an invisible mirror universe on the other side of the Bang, which is made of mostly antimatter.
Koen
Oct 08, 2008

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What about symmetry breaking of the mother of all symmetries: that of symmetry of electromagnetism on the classical level? Mainstream physicists don't even consider this, while such an asymmetry can explain many phenomenon.
Bashgame
Oct 09, 2008

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Koen - It is my understanding that classical mechanics is a low-speed approximation to the frameworks of special and general relativity. In the relativistic model the electrostatic force and the magnetic force are identical, the apparent difference is merely a consequence of the relative velocities of the reference frames involved.
andersenvance
Oct 09, 2008

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Actually everything in the universe has symmetry and geometry. Its just really, really small or big, depending on your perspective. The Flower Of Life.

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.

http://weirdnews4...-of.html
Alizee
Oct 12, 2008

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By AWT the observable Universe appears as being formed by nested density fluctuations of hypothetical dense gas, similar to dense sponge or foam (yes, with dodecahedron symmetry, like ordinary foam). and the particles are formed by surface density gradients (strings, membranes) of that foam. The trick is, the particles which are formed by density gradients inside of foam bubbles are apparently more stable, then these formed by the outer ones. But at the current situation, when the vacuum foam has a quite thin walls, the difference (CP-parity violation) is quite subtle. At the very beginning of the Universe formation, the vacuum foam was quite dense and their bubbles were rounded. It means, here WAS a quite large difference in stability between matter and antimatter particles, so no antimatter particles could survive up to present day.

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.
Alizee
Oct 12, 2008

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By AWT the state of symmetry appears as a most stable arrangement of Universe, therefore it's most probable, we can met with it here. For example the foam brane with two surface gradients, or the system of two political parties appears as most stable and atemporary. But this symmetry is always violated, or we could see anything from it.

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.
Alizee
Oct 12, 2008

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..."Higgs Boson, proposed as a ubiquitous, syrupy field that interacts with other particles"...

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).
Alexa
Oct 13, 2008

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By AWT all antimatter didn't dissapear completelly due Le Chattelier's principle, which manifests itself for example during formation of soot from fastly cooled candle flame. While the mixture of carbon and oxygen is metastable, the fast cooling of overheated mixture enables to separate them without reaction.

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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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