New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings
This newly updated edition of a well-known work explores a pair of modern science's most fundamental discoveries: the asymmetric DNA helix and the overthrow of parity (left-right symmetry) in particle physics. Absorbing and thought-provoking, The New Ambidextrous Universe was written by Martin Gardner, one of Dover's most popular authors,.\ \ Martin Gardner takes an entertaining look at one of man's most puzzling questions: Is the universe symmetrical? This book...
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This newly updated edition of a well-known work explores a pair of modern science's most fundamental discoveries: the asymmetric DNA helix and the overthrow of parity (left-right symmetry) in particle physics. Absorbing and thought-provoking, The New Ambidextrous Universe was written by Martin Gardner, one of Dover's most popular authors,.
Preface to the Dover EditionviiPreface to the Third EditionixPreface to the Second EditionxiPreface to the First Editionxiii1Mirrors12Lineland and Flatland73Solidland134Magic235Art, Music, Poetry, and Numbers336Galaxies, Suns, and Planets457Plants and Animals538Asymmetry in Animals659The Human Body7310The Sinistral Minority8311Crystals9112Molecules10313Carbon11514Living Molecules12715The Origin of Life13516The Origin of Asymmetry14717The Fourth Dimension15118The Ozma Problem16519Mach's Shock17320Parity18721Antiparticles19722The Fall of Parity21123Neutrinos22324Mr. Split23125The Fall of Time Invariance24126Where's the Antimatter?24727What Happened to the Monopoles?25728The Arrows of Time27329Entropy28330Time-Reversed Worlds29131Time-Reversed Persons and Particles30132Early Theories of Matter30933Spin32534Superstrings335Further Readings350Answers to Exercises354Index359Notes393
