On 6/5/06, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > > > On 6/4/06, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > > > (Someone who can do rather more surprising things, like > > > defy causality.) > > > > I am not sure if "defy" is the correct term. Perhaps "dance around" > > is better, considering that there are constraints even she must > > follow? > > Well, the physics word is "violate" - I've never heard, "This decay > dances around the C-P symmetry". While I must bow to your expertise in your field, I think particle physics is perhaps poorer for the lack of elegant verbs to describe such phenomena.