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| + | <blockquote>If you take a mirror, and look at a left hand in the mirror, it looks light a right hand. Such a process, which turns something behaving like a left hand into something like a right hand, is called a parity transformation in particle physics. | ||
| + | <cite>http://axelmaas.blogspot.de/2011/11/chiral-or-why-left-and-right-is-not.html</cite></blockquote> | ||
| Acting with a parity transformation on a system simply means that we create a mirrored copy of it. Another name for a parity transformation is spatial inversions. | Acting with a parity transformation on a system simply means that we create a mirrored copy of it. Another name for a parity transformation is spatial inversions. | ||
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| 1& 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0&-1 & 0 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & -1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & -1 | 1& 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0&-1 & 0 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & -1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & -1 | ||
| \end{pmatrix} \end{equation} | \end{pmatrix} \end{equation} | ||
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| + | This matrix flips all spatial coordinates and keeps the time coordinate unchanged. | ||
| <tabbox Abstract> | <tabbox Abstract> | ||
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