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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. |