Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Copyright acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Continuous symmetries
- Part II Discrete symmetries
- 11 Classic texts: extracts from Leibniz, Kant, and Black
- 12 Understanding permutation symmetry
- 13 Quarticles and the identity of indiscernibles
- 14 Handedness, parity violation, and the reality of space
- 15 Mirror symmetry: what is it for a relational space to be orientable?
- 16 Physics and Leibniz's principles
- Part III Symmetry breaking
- Part IV General interpretative issues
- Index
14 - Handedness, parity violation, and the reality of space
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Copyright acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Continuous symmetries
- Part II Discrete symmetries
- 11 Classic texts: extracts from Leibniz, Kant, and Black
- 12 Understanding permutation symmetry
- 13 Quarticles and the identity of indiscernibles
- 14 Handedness, parity violation, and the reality of space
- 15 Mirror symmetry: what is it for a relational space to be orientable?
- 16 Physics and Leibniz's principles
- Part III Symmetry breaking
- Part IV General interpretative issues
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Symmetries in PhysicsPhilosophical Reflections, pp. 250 - 280Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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