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This video is about the Ozma problem of distinguishing the chirality (ie lefthandedness or righthandedness) of matter using weak interaction processes like beta decay (for example in uranium), or neutral kaon/kmeson 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/setiinstitute/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...

Lglucose (vs Dglucose)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGlucose

Radioactive Nucleus Decay
http://www.radioactivity.eu.com/site/...

CP Violation in SemiLeptonic 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
   • The Big Lebowski Jesus Scene (HD 720p)  

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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