what is symmetry breaking?
symmetry breaking is when something turns out in a particular way and there's no real reason.

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A good example is a nematic liquid crystal, which consists of rod-like or disk-like molecules. The free energy density of this system is invariant under the group of spatial rotations, SO(3). This is a global symmetry: the thermodynamics should not depend on the orientation of the sample. However, at low temperatures and at high pressures the molecules prefer to line up: thus in any particular sample the full rotational symmetry will not be respected by the direction of alignment. The rotational symmetry is still there, for there is no preferred alignment direction, but it is broken by the equilibrium state, which has all the molecules pointing one way. --arXiv:hep-ph/9411342

So that's where Teletubby land is! Have you met Tinky-Winky yet? ;)

HA! ACCORDING TO THE DAILY MAIL WEEKEND MAGAZINE, DAVID TENNANT SAID HE WOULD LOVE TO GO ON CELEBRITY STARS IN THEIR EYES AS JARVIS COCKER

he doesn't fool me.
never seen them in the same room together

My opinion tastes of lavender.

In my opinion, Personnel departments are nothing but a waste of space and personally responsible for the destruction of an obscene number of forests due to their irritating need for a tree's worth of paperwork for the simplest of transactions. I think we should therefore be able to eliminate them on environmental as well as mental health grounds.

Brace dams; relax the blessed.

Scenic yay.

The world is quiet here.

hello people :) back from Cornwall now. Was very coastal and scenic :P :) spent most of today up a large erection in portsmouth, otherwise known as the spinnaker tower ;)

Armageddon! emoticon that releases a live hamster, you know the rest ;)

I want an :apocalypse: emoticon.

Using it makes the world end.

I want one, like the "suicide" smiley, but a "seppuku" one, with the guts (yellow, of course) spilling out everywhere.

A large yellow smiley that vomits half-digested cabbage over the page. It drips slowly and glutinously over the images.

vv - i like to use emoticons to make sure that people on the internet know when i'm making a joke



also

So what do people think about emoticons?

Solution to the whole application form thing. Simply send them a photo from this site, with the accompanying note: You will employ me, or face his wrath.