Timeline for Is axis of symmetry considered a true symmetry?
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 1:57 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackChemistry/status/721880416039383041 | ||
| Apr 17, 2016 at 23:41 | answer | added | K_P | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 18:01 | answer | added | aventurin | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 17:24 | comment | added | Ivan Neretin | No, this is not what they say. If you skip a few words from a meaningful sentence, it is quite easy to arrive at nonsense. It is not just "any kind of symmetry"; it is "any kind of inversion symmetry", or "any kind of symmetry with determinant -1". Rotational symmetry does not apply, though it is surely true and real (and non-trivial, for that matter). | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 16:18 | comment | added | K_P | It has to be non trivial. A rotation of $0$ or $2\pi$ about an axis being trivial. | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 15:59 | history | asked | James Hunt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |