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Physicists believed that in a mirror image of the world all laws of physics would be exactly the same. Observers watching an experiment reflected in a mirror could be fooled into thinking that they were seeing reality. This principle is named parity invariance, where "parity" refers to a mirror image that switches up with down and left with right.

Most physical phenomena seem to obey this parity invariance. The law seems to apply to the strong, the electro-magnetic and the gravitational forces.

And apparently the weak force does not obey.

Stubborn physicists then tried believing that by taking the mirror image of the world, each particle of matter is replaced with its anti-matter correspondent, or anti-particle and happily the scientists named their new principle charge-parity invariance.

It seems the weak force still does not obey.

"When the universe began, matter and antimatter supposedly were created in equal amounts. However, all observations indicate we live in a Universe made only of matter. So, what happened to the antimatter?"

From chapter 8 of the Nature of Order, "The mirror of the Self", by Alexander

1. The things we like (from the heart) make us feel wholesome when we are near them.

2. We also feel wholesome when we are making these things.

3. The more accurate we are about what we really like, in this sense of liking from the heart, the more we find out that we agree with other people about which these things are.

4. What we like from the heart coincides with the objective structure of wholeness or life in a thing. As we get to know the "it" which we like from the heart, we begin to see this is the deepest thing there is. It applies to all judgements - not just about buildings and works of art, but also about actions, people, everything.

5. There is an empirical way in which we can help ourselves to find out what we really like from the heart. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find what we really like, and it is by no means automatic to be in touch with it. It takes effort, hard work, and personal enlightnment to understand it and to feel it. It requires liberation from opinion and concepts and ego to experience deep liking.

6. The reasons for the existence of this deep liking are mysterious, not obvious. To plumb them we shall have to examine the nature of things - even, ultimately, the nature of matter itself - very carefully. Nevertheless, the reasons are empirical. We may determine empirically, to what extent a thing has the ability to rouse this deep liking in us. It is not a private matter.

7. Somehow, the experience of real liking has to do with self. As we find out which things awaken real liking in ourselves, we find ourselves more in touch than before with our own selves.

-- NynkeEtkFokma, July 2004