The Ambidextrous Universe
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The Ambidextrous Universe is a popular science book by Martin Gardner, covering aspects of symmetry and asymmetry in human culture, science and the wider universe. It culminates in a discussion of whether nature's conservation of parity (the symmetry of mirrored quantum systems) is ever violated, which had been proven experimentally in 1956.
Author | Martin Gardner |
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Illustrator | John Mackey |
Cover artist | Germano Facetti |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subjects | Symmetry, Science, Mathematics |
Publisher | Penguin Books |
Publication date | 1964 |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 276 (1st edition) 401 (3rd edition) |
ISBN | 978-0-486-44244-0 |
OCLC | 57373717 |
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LC Class | QC793.3.S9 G37 2005 |
The book was originally published in 1964 with the subtitle Left, Right, and the Fall of Parity, with a revised version following in 1969. A second edition was released in 1979 with the new subtitle Mirror Asymmetry and Time-Reversed Worlds. The third edition was released in 1990 under the title The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings; this was re-released with minor revisions in 2005.