““In the process, we might remember that the ground state, the vacuum state of our world, doesn't display all the symmetries of the laws of nature either. Our relation to the universe is similar to that of the magnet-dwellers to their home, The difference is that the preferred direction of our world is not in the space of our geometric experience; rather, it is an abstract direction in the generalized space made up out of the properties of elementary particles. The fundamental laws of nature in the real world are completely symmetric with respect to rotations in geometrical space.””
