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spontaneous symmetry breaking
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spontaneous symmetry breaking [spän′tā·nē·əs ′sim·ə·trē ‚brāk·iŋ]
(physics)
A situation in which the solution of a set of physical equations fails to exhibit a symmetry possessed by the equations themselves; an example is a magnet, in which the underlying equations describing the metal do not distinguish any direction of space from any other, but the magnet certainly does, since it points in some definite direction.
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Scientists believe that the existence of the universe as we see it is the result of a spontaneously broken symmetry that meant there was one extra matter particle for every 10bn antimatter particles.
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