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symmetry breaking
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symmetry breaking has antonym symmetry 2001-09-27 09:32:33.0
has synonym asymmetry has source: Ferris, T. 1988 Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Morrow, 2001-09-27 09:32:33.0
has definition A violation of symmetry.
has definition A reduction in the amount of symmetry a system appears to have, usually associated with a phase transition. has source: Greene, B. 1999 The Elegant Universe, W.W. Norton and Co., New York, 2001-09-27 09:32:33.0
has definition A set of mathematical transformations that represent a symmetry. has source: Lightman, A., Brawer, R. 1990 The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists, Harvard University Press, 2001-09-27 09:32:33.0
has definition The process by which an intrinsic symmetry of a system is disrupted. For example, a compass, in the absence of any outside magnetic field, has rotational symmetry and is equally likely to point in any direction. The magnetic field of the earth breaks the symmetry and causes the compass to point in a particular direction, toward the earth's north magnetic pole. In some cosmological models, the infant universe was much more symmetric than it is today. As the universe aged and cooled, some of these symmetries were permanently broken. has source: Lightman, A., Brawer, R. 1990 The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists, Harvard University Press, 2001-09-27 09:32:33.0
has definition In cosmology and particle physics, a state in which traces of an earlier symmetry may be discerned. A broken symmetry condition differs from chaos in that its parts can in theory be united in a symmetrical whole, like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. has source: Ferris, T. 1988 Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Morrow], 2001-09-27 09:32:33.0
is a kind of mathematical concept

Kinds of symmetry breaking :

anisotropy (4 facts) - The condition in which the universe appears different in different directions., The characteristic of being dependent upon direction. (Light coming with equal intensity from all directions is isotropic; a spotlight's beam is anisotropic.) The cosmic background radiation is generally isotropic - i.e., its intensity is the same in all parts of the sky - but small anisotropies have been detected which are thought to reflect the earth's proper motion relative to the framework of the universe as a whole.
CP violation (3 facts) - A reaction between subatomic particles is said to be a "CP violating" reaction if the reaction produces a different result when the electrical charges of the particles are changed to their opposites and the mirror image of the particle trajectories is used.

symmetry breaking	has antonym symmetry
	has synonym asymmetry
	has definition A violation of symmetry.
	has definition A reduction in the amount of symmetry a system appears to have, usually associated with a phase transition.
	has definition A set of mathematical transformations that represent a symmetry.
	has definition The process by which an intrinsic symmetry of a system is disrupted. For example, a compass, in the absence of any outside magnetic field, has rotational symmetry and is equally likely to point in any direction. The magnetic field of the earth breaks the symmetry and causes the compass to point in a particular direction, toward the earth's north magnetic pole. In some cosmological models, the infant universe was much more symmetric than it is today. As the universe aged and cooled, some of these symmetries were permanently broken.
	has definition In cosmology and particle physics, a state in which traces of an earlier symmetry may be discerned. A broken symmetry condition differs from chaos in that its parts can in theory be united in a symmetrical whole, like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
	is a kind of mathematical concept