Physics week 5

My world feels pretty asymmetric at the moment. When I think of symmetry, I think of balance - what you have on one side, you have on the other - things are evenly distributed over space and time. It is challenging to have life in grad school resemble anything close to balance. It'd be lovely if I spent as much time outdoors as indoors for some symmetry, and yet, some days we rarely have the chance to leave the building. Certainly there is plenty of symmetry in my life - I don't think we'd be alive without it, but at the moment things seemed skewed to the asymmetric.
A CP violation is a violation of two symmetries. C stands for charge conjugation which transforms particles into antiparticles. And P for parity change - a system reflected in a mirror. The kaon particle violates CP because when when scientists changed the charge and the parity in these particles their decay rate also changed. This means that the kaon wouldn't decay the same if time were running backwards. Honestly, I'm a little hazy on what this all means. I think its interesting to think of a particle as distinguishing past from future, and maybe that's the kaons purpose.
I think there are absolutely connections between sacred geometry and physics. Both are making sense and order out of our universe. Through both, we can see the sense, patterns, and even beauty that exists in our universe that may not be visible to the naked eye. It's a lovely idea that the math we use to understand the world can be represented in these beautiful shapes.

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  1. LidaRoseJune 19, 2017 at 5:07 AM

    "....even beauty that exists in our universe that may not be visible to the naked eye."
    Thank you for your blog.
    I am reminded of the phrase, ' we can't see the forest for the trees' in reverse! Meaning we, humankind, ponder the unseen, ignoring the multitude of seen often right under our nose. I remembered a conversation where the speaker remarked how our body mimics itself several times over. For example, the certain areas of the foot, hand and ear correlate to certain organs, even moods. In fact, points do the same!!
    We, humankind, almost prefer to look for answers in the distant stars, when the answer could simply be right beneath our nose.

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  2. ninaJune 19, 2017 at 7:12 PM

    I had a visceral response to your post. You can clearly imagine a symmetrical existence but it's right out of reach. Feeling slightly underwater to a less than comfortable degree, but still functioning. I hope that you can find some time to restore yourself and get into nature. Thanks for connecting the idea of symmetry with balance. It seems that too much of even a wonderful thing can leave us feeling lopsided.

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