Eastern philosophy has been helping me to understand symmetry and asymmetry, especially the principles of yin and yang. The four principles of yin and yang are opposition, mutual consumption, interdependence or mutual reliance upon the each other, and inter-transformation or mutually changing nature into the other. I think of symmetry as yin and asymmetry as yang. In order to define symmetry and asymmetry you would need to find extreme examples of the others nature. For Symmetry you need an object's relative position of parts to be divisible across a dividing line, median plane, about a center, or axis. Asymmetry would be the unequal divisibility of the objects relative position of parts. To create the world we live in now you would multiple interactions such as opposition, mutual consumption, interdependence, and inter-transformation between symmetry and asymmetry. There are times when asymmetry gives rise to symmetry such as the imperfections on tree bark but step away and look at the bark from a distance, the imperfections reflect a uniform tree bark with that imperfection repeated at consistent intervals. This would be an example of interdependence.
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understanding of CP violation is that there is more matter in the
universe than antimatter. I think that the antimatter is constantly being transformed into matter. I based this off the law of conservation of energy, no energy is created nor destroyed within a closed system. The closed sytem for this scenario is the conversion of antimatter into matter. Humans haven't developed the right technology to measure this phenomenon yet.
I believe a fractal is one of the connections between sacred geometry and physics. I think a fractal is sacred geometry due to the fact the pattern of the fractal can be replicated at every scale. Fractals role in physics would be to help give visuals of the atomic particles like quarks, protons, and neutrons.
this article is old but it did help me understand CP violation better.
http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/28092
I really liked how you related the principals of yin and yang to understand symmetry and asymmetry!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Ivy. I think using the principles of yin and yang as way of understanding symmetry and asymmetry is very helpful as well as insightful. It paints a particular framework in which we can relate other aspects of physics to as well.
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