Book:Martin Gardner/The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings

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