"Parity Is Not Conserved" A New Twist to Physics?

Authors :: Frisch, O. R.
Source :: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; Mar1959, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p139-143, 5p
Publication Year :: 1959
Abstract: The article focuses on issues and topics related to parity nonconservation relative to the study conducted by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley in 1887 at Cleveland, Ohio. The Michelson-Morley experiment led Albert Einstein to formulate his famous Theory of Relativity eighteen years later. The phrase "Parity is Not Conserved," has become the a favorite subject of discussion among the scientific community around the globe. In everyday language, this phrase roughly means that some laws of nature are not symmetrical.