Quote by Henning Genz

“A common example from physics is of a pencil balanced on its point. It is symmetric, in that while it is balanced on its…

— Lee Smolin

“Yet, despite the symmetry of the laws of Nature, we observe the outcomes of those symmetrical laws to be assymetrical states and structures.”

— John D. Barrow

“THE GOLDSTONE THEOREM It doesn't matter for our discussion that the broken symmetry of our world chooses a particular direction not in actual geometrical…

— Henning Genz

“Much of the structure of the world, both social and physical, is a consequence of the requirement that the world, in its actuality, break…

— Lee Smolin

Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually…

— Tsung-Dao Lee

“The use of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a fundamental theory was to have profound consequences, not just for the laws of nature but for…

— Lee Smolin

“SYMMETRY BREAKING The preferential direction fixed by this spontaneous symmetry breaking will now determine which among the elementary particles will share in the strong…

— Henning Genz

Symmetry does mean something different for physicists than for members of the public. It means that an object or a theory does not change…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful…

— Anonymous

Digital mechanics predicts that for every continuous symmetry of physics there will be some microscopic process that violates that symmetry.

— Edward Fredkin

“Particle physicists are the most deeply Platonic because their entire subject is built upon a belief that the deepest workings of the world are…

— John D. Barrow

“an elegant mechanism emerges: a broken symmetry, hidden from our view by a field pervading space.”

— Sean Carroll