Physicists have taken a bold step beyond Einstein's special theory of relativity, proposing an expansion of special ...

which is based on the assumption that the molecules that gave rise to life were formed through the spontaneous desymmetrization of symmetry. "According to one of the widely held theories about the ...

But this symmetry was unstable. As the universe cooled, it underwent a process called spontaneous symmetry breaking, rather like a phase transition when a gas condenses to a liquid, say ...