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The parity-identification problem fits naturally into this landscape. Parity is a global property, insensitive to most local details. In this respect, it resembles many other quantities studied in ...

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"The polarized light of the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to new physics that violates parity symmetry," the team explains in that paper. "For example, the interaction of photons with the ...

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