Octonions and the Standard Model (Part 13)
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Octonions and the Standard Model (Part 13)
Posted by John Baez
When Lee and Yang suggested that the laws of physics might not be invariant under spatial reflection — that there’s a fundamental difference between left and right — Pauli was skeptical. In a letter to Victor Weisskopf in January 1957, he wrote:
“Ich glaube aber nicht, daß der Herrgott ein schwacher Linkshänder ist.”
(I do not believe that the Lord is a weak left-hander.)
But just two days after Pauli wrote this letter, Chien-Shiung.