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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists and astronomers have long believed that the universe has mirror symmetry, like a basketball. But recent findings from the University of Michigan suggest that the shape ...

Toss a pebble in a pond, and you will know. The ripples in the pond are examples of broken symmetry. The laws of physics are mirror symmetric. Any molecule, for example, that is not mirror ...