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Comment by ISL

To tell an alien about handedness definitively, without an artifact, may require that both parties are aware of the CP-violation present in the weak interaction.

Put another way, how can we know that aliens won't reconstruct an electromagnetic message as a mirror image of what we sent?

parent ISL 7 years ago

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