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Desperately Seeking Symmetry

The show sets out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and asks how symmetry shapes our very existence -- from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror. Along the way, the program looks for love in ancient Greece, heads to modern-day Princeton to peer inside our brains and turns up an unlikely headline from the Oval Office circa 1979.


Ahhh.. doesn't everyone recall that first session in the barbershop-with-proverbial-parallel mirrors?
.. those couples who complete each others' sentences (sans any idea of interrupting?)
.. nλ = 2d sin θ ?
.. Dick Cheney meets the exact Alien dispatched-into-space (by Ripley) and sees himself?
.. Thalidomide™ made with the dextro- [ not laevo-] rotary nasty arm-eating molecule?

and, of course ... and continuing ... the mystery of why [anti-matter + matter-matter] didn't annihilate the entire maya in 10-43 seconds