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Originally Posted by Nesti
Wasn't the author using the term "space" as a general term anyway?! I mean, he wasn't inferring that the spacetime continuum had a twist, or that GR needed refinement...he could just of easily used the words, universe or cosmos. That's why I chose the term lopsidedness (room for escape).
Hang-on, you introduced it in the first place...So by association you must take responsibility for;
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Nothing vacuous about it at all.
In the context of this thread parity is not even a measurement of lopsidedness.
It is a property of the spatial flipping of a quantum wavefunction or state, not the Universe, cosmos, spacetime etc.
A quantum wavefunction or state can have either have an odd or even parity. If the wavefunction or state changes through a process of say particle decay or collision between particles, parity is either conserved or it isn't.
For example if the initial state has even(odd) parity and the final state has even(odd) parity then parity is conserved.
If the initial state is even(odd) but the final state is a combination of even
and odd states then parity is not conserved.
Where parity is conserved you can spatially flip the wavefunctions as the process can proceed irrespective of whether left hand or right hand particles are involved.
Processes involving the weak force cannot be flipped as the final state is a combination of even and odd quantum wavefunctions.
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Steven