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by peter_d_sherman·2y ago·view on hn ↗
>"As a sec­ond ex­am­ple of an ad­di­tional sym­me­try in empty space, physics works, nor­mally, the same when seen in the mir­ror. That leads to a very use­ful [usually, but not always!] con­served quan­tity called par­ity.

Par­ity is some­what dif­fer­ent from mo­men­tum."

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_(physics)

https://www.britannica.com/science/parity-particle-physics

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/yang-lecture.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem