Book:Martin Gardner/The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings
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Martin Gardner: The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings
Published $\text {1990}$, W.H. Freeman and Company
- ISBN 0-7167-2093-0
Revised edition of The Ambidextrous Universe: Mirror Asymmetry and Time-Reversed Worlds from $1964$.
Contents
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1. Mirrors
- 2. Lineland and Flatland
- 3. Solidland
- 4. Magic
- 5. Art, Music, Poetry, and Numbers
- 6. Galaxies, Suns, and Planets
- 7. Plants and Animals
- 8. Asymmetry in Animals
- 9. The Human Body
- 10. The Sinistral Minority
- 11. Crystals
- 12. Molecules
- 13. Carbon
- 14. Living Molecules
- 15. The Origin of Life
- 16. The Origin of Asymmetry
- 17. The Fourth Dimension
- 18. The Ozma Problem
- 19. Mach's Shock
- 20. Parity
- 21. Antiparticles
- 22. The Fall of Parity
- 23. Neutrinos
- 24. Mr. Split
- 25. The Fall of Time Invariance
- 26. Where's the Antimatter?
- 27. What Happened to the Monopoles?
- 28. The Arrows of Time
- 29. Entropy
- 30. Time-Reversed Worlds
- 31. Time-Reversed Persons and Particles
- 32. Early Theories of Matter
- 33. Spin
- 34. Superstrings
- Further Readings
- Answers to Exercises
- Index