Therefore if we were to put it in a corresponding experiment in a “mirror,” in which the cobalt atoms would be lined up in the opposite direction, they would spit their electrons up, not down; the action is unsymmetrical. The magnet has grown hairs!
That is, if we transform Maxwell’s equations by the substitution of equations 3.2, their form does not remain the same; therefore, in a moving spaceship the electrical and optical phenomena should be different from those in a stationary ship.
Symmetry in physics
thing is symmetrical if one can subject it to a certain operation and it appears exactly the same after the operation.
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