conservation of parity

conservation of parity
noun
(physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system
Topics: ↑physics, ↑natural philosophy
Hypernyms: ↑conservation

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conservation of parity,
Physics. the theory that in strong interactions the behavior of a wave function and that of its mirror image cannot be differentiated in any experiment.

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