Asymmetrical

Only products originating under the influence of life are asymmetrical, because the cosmic generative, life forces that preside over their formation are themselves asymmetrical. Asymmetry differentiates the organic world and the mineral world.

• Certain disturbances during the development of the organism, resulting in Birth Defect s.


• Injuries after cell division that cannot be biologically repaired, such as a lost Limb from an accident.


• Essential asymetry and important evolutionary traits, such as the left Human Lung being smaller than the right to make room for the Heart . Humans in turn only have one heart, but this is likely due to a shift from a more central position during evolution, since it is still a bilateral symmetry (it has two Ventricle s and two Atrium s), like e.g. the Nose , albeit slightly distorted, with some parts of the heart larger than others.

Among many organisms, since birth defects and injuries are likely to indicate a poor health of the organism, defects resulting in asymmetry are often looked as negative traits when it comes to partnership and reproduction.

• Clausius' Second Law : There is no thermodynamic process whose sole effect is to extract a quantity of heat from a colder reservoir and deliver it to a hotter reservoir.

• Pasteur's molecular asymmetry: The lack of some elements of symmetry is necessary to have left- and right-handed molecules.

• Asymmetric Cell Division s. and Lily Yeh, 1999

• Charge-symmetry breaking in physics, the mechanism responsible for protons and neutrons having different masses.

• Distribution of income in economics.

• Yuh-Nung Jan and Lily Yeh Jan, 1999. ''Asymmetry across species''. Nature Cell Biology 1, E42 - E44

• Kepler, (1611) Strena sue de nive sexangula (On the Six-Cornered Snowflake) - discusses (among other things) symmetry properties of minerals and trees.