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- What is meant by chiral symmetry breaking?
- Why is symmetry broken?
- What are examples of broken symmetry in life?
What is meant by chiral symmetry breaking?
In particle physics, chiral symmetry breaking is the spontaneous symmetry breaking of a chiral symmetry – usually by a gauge theory such as quantum chromodynamics, the quantum field theory of the strong interaction.
Why is symmetry broken?
There are many possible fates for a symmetry. It may be exact, explicitly broken, or dynamically or spontaneously broken. Symmetries arise when a theory has an invariance under some transformation of the basic fields of the theory. This invariance may be either discrete or continuous.
What are examples of broken symmetry in life?
For example, water looks the same in all directions, but when it changes and becomes a snowflake, it becomes more complex. A snowflake crystal looks the same in only six directions. This is an example of symmetry breaking.
