CP Violation

Here are two more open questions about physics. I have a question of my own at the end!




Why are the laws of physics not symmetrical when we switch left and right, or future and past, or matter and antimatter? Why do the laws of nature even violate “CP symmetry”? That is: why are the laws not symmetrical under the operation where we simultaneously switch matter and antimatter and switch left and right?


Violation of P symmetry, meaning the symmetry between left and right, is strongly visible ...


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Published on January 04, 2021 17:00
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