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Lee and Yang’s 1956 assumption that Fermi’s 1933 ‘weak interaction’ is not invariant under space reflection — ‘parity violating’, in the jargon — followed by Mrs Wu’s (Wu et al., 1957) experimental proof of the fact caused quite a shock; a shock wave, so to speak, the ripples of which are still felt today.
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de Beauregard, O.C. (1987). Parity Violations and CPT Invariance. In: Time, The Physical Magnitude. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 99. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3811-3_17
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