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SCIENCE LOVES SYMMETRY

 


 Butterfly is beautiful because of it's symmetrical shape.  Almost all natural objects have symmetrical shape.  Humans , animals, plants, moon, mountain, seashells, snowflakes, egg, DNA etc,.

There are many examples in mathematics.

*Shapes like parabola, cone, square, circle, etc,.
*Every operation has a reverse operation.
+ to -
x to /
a=b^c to c= log a  to base b
*Even the mathematical objects called fractals which are arising out of chaos exhibits symmetry.
Symmetry is abundant in physics.

*To every action there is and equal and opposite reaction.
*Heat can be converted into work and vice versa.
*Energy to mass; mass to energy. Both conversion possible.  
*If magnetic dipole has north and south pole, electric dipole must have positive and negative poles.
*If changing magnetic field creates electric field then changing electric field must create magnetic        field.
*In a motor, we send current and produce rotations.  In a generator, we make rotations and produce  currents.
*Antenna can send radio waves and as well as receive radio waves.
*If light waves behaves like particles called photons, the particles like electron should behave like  waves.
*For a particle there is a anti particle.  Examples:  Electron x proton; proton x anti-proton.  They have  opposite changes.  
*Particle and antiparticle can annihilate each other and create waves.  From the waves, we can extract  back the pair of particles.
*Can we think of a car, bike, or a plane without symmetry?
So it goes on.

 so using symmetry, one can understand the science phenomenon, design a new device or invent a new principle.  Also symmetry adds a beauty to an object or a principle.  The particle Higg's boson was discovered using symmetry principle.     

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