From the morning’s press:
The axial–gravitational anomaly should
destroy the symmetry of particular kinds of particles that usually come in
mirror-image pairs. The kinds of conditions needed to prove this unusual
breakdown of a fundamental ‘conservation law’ can’t be created in a laboratory.
But the researchers exploited a peculiar parallel between gravity and
temperature to create a lab analogue of the anomaly in niobium phosphide
crystals. Inside the crystal, the effect
is as if a drawerful of pairs of gloves were suddenly to acquire an excess of
right-handed gloves because some of the left-handed ones had switched
handedness.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exotic-physics-glimpsed-for-first-time-in-lab-crystal/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exotic-physics-glimpsed-for-first-time-in-lab-crystal/
But … exactly that
effect has been repeatedly observed in our own household, especially over
winter!
The effect is statistically too strong to be due to chance.
It’s a nuisance, too.
I’ve tried auctioning off the extra left-hand-gloves on eBay at very
reasonable prices (more than half off
the price of the original pair), but no takers.
Possibly there is an excess of right-hand-gloves in, say, Australia. Some enterprising arbitrageur could make a mitt, I meant a
mint.
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