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Symmetry is one of the most important structural elements in nature. Space is symmetrical – i.e. no direction is given preference in a physical sense – and we demand and find for practically any elemental particle (e.g. the electron with its negative elemental charge) a "mirror-image" object (e.g. the positron with its positive elemental charge). For reasons of symmetry there is matter and anti-matter.
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Karrenberg, U. (2013). The Symmetry Principle. In: Signals, Processes, and Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38053-2_5
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