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  2. Symmetry breaking - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Symmetry breaking and tunneling relate through the collapse of a particle into non-symmetric state as it seeks a lower energy. [4] Symmetry breaking can be distinguished into two types, explicit and spontaneous. They are characterized by whether the equations of motion fail to be invariant, or the ground state fails to be invariant.

  3. Tombolo - Wikipedia

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    Tombolo near Karystos, Euboea, Greece Tombolo contrasted with other coastal landforms.. A tombolo is a sandy or shingle isthmus.A tombolo, from the Italian tombolo, meaning 'pillow' or 'cushion', and sometimes translated incorrectly as ayre (an ayre is a shingle beach of any kind), is a deposition landform by which an island becomes attached to the mainland by a narrow piece of land such as a ...

  4. Spontaneous symmetry breaking - Wikipedia

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    Spontaneous symmetry breaking illustrated: At high energy levels (left), the ball settles in the center, and the result is symmetric.At lower energy levels (right), the overall "rules" remain symmetric, but the symmetric "sombrero" enforces an asymmetric outcome, since eventually the ball must rest at some random spot on the bottom, "spontaneously", and not all others.

  5. Woodward–Hoffmann rules - Wikipedia

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    To make the analysis precise, one can construct the state correlation diagram for the general [4+2]-cycloaddition. [20] As before, the ground state is the electronic state depicted in the molecular orbital correlation diagram to the right. This can be described as Ψ 1 2 π 2 Ψ 2 2, of total symmetry S 2 S 2 A 2 =S.

  6. Left-right asymmetry - Wikipedia

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    In developmental biology, left-right asymmetry (LR asymmetry) is the process in early embryonic development that breaks the normal symmetry in the bilateral embryo.In vertebrates, left-right asymmetry is established early in development at a structure called the left-right organizer (the name of which varies between species) and leads to activation of different signalling pathways on the left ...

  7. Line group - Wikipedia

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    A line group is a mathematical way of describing symmetries associated with moving along a line. These symmetries include repeating along that line, making that line a one-dimensional lattice. However, line groups may have more than one dimension, and they may involve those dimensions in its isometries or symmetry transformations.

  8. Symmetry - Wikipedia

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    The type of symmetry is determined by the way the pieces are organized, or by the type of transformation: An object has reflectional symmetry (line or mirror symmetry) if there is a line (or in 3D a plane) going through it which divides it into two pieces that are mirror images of each other. [6]

  9. Symmetry (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A drawing of a butterfly with bilateral symmetry, with left and right sides as mirror images of each other.. In geometry, an object has symmetry if there is an operation or transformation (such as translation, scaling, rotation or reflection) that maps the figure/object onto itself (i.e., the object has an invariance under the transform). [1]