HEP Seminars

Parity Violation - The Greatest Scientific Blunder of the 20th Century

by Dr. Mark Hadley (University of Warwick)

Wednesday 23 October 2013 from 14:30 to 15:30 (Europe/London)
at Chadwick Building ( Barkla Lecture Theatre )
Description
Experimental and theoretical results on Parity violation are explored and challenged. Parity could be conserved. In fact a novel approach to unification of general relativity and quantum theory predicts that parity is conserved and that CP violation is a consequence of asymmetries in local spacetime. The Kerr metric contains a t and phi asymmetric term caused by the rotation of the galaxy which is a potential cause of observed CP violation. The magnitude of CP violation would then vary around the Universe. It is conjectured that evidence of this influence could be found in existing data from CERN and BaBar.