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This video is about the Ozma problem of distinguishing the chirality (ie left-handedness or right-handedness) of matter using weak interaction processes like beta decay (for example in uranium), or neutral kaon/k-meson decay. This is wrapped up in the phenomenon of CP violation, by which charge and parity are both violated by certain weak interaction processes - this enables antimatter to be unambiguously distinguished from matter, and left handed chirality from right handed.
REFERENCES
The Ozma Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Project
https://www.seti.org/seti-institute/p...
Sean Carroll on CP Symmetry (& why we shouldn't trot out baryogenesis all the time)
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/...
Electroweak CP Violation on Scholarpedia
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/C...
The Wu Experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuexper...
Martin Gardner, The New Ambidextrous Universe
https://books.google.com/books?id=kdL...
Lecture notes on CP Violation and the CKM Matrix, Cambridge (Mark Thomson)
https://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/thomson...
Homochirality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homochi...
L-glucose (vs D-glucose)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Glucose
Radioactive Nucleus Decay
http://www.radioactivity.eu.com/site/...
CP Violation in Semi-Leptonic Decays (SEE PAGE 426 for reference to definition of MATTER)
https://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/thomson...
Kaon Decay Modes
http://pdg.lbl.gov/2012/listings/rpp2...
Flipped bowling Jesus scene in Big Lebowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWz8N...
Isotopes of Uranium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotope...
Beta Decay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betadecay
The Wu Experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuexper...
Kaons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaon
CP Violation in Symmetry Magazine
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/arti...
Physics Stack Exchange on CP Violation
https://physics.stackexchange.com/que...
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How To Tell Matter From Antimatter | CP Violation & The Ozma Problem ─ minutephysics
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