I am a retired empirical, wet lab biologist who has had a long term interest in complex systems for fifty years. So I may not be qualified to comment on your question. But from examination of the wikipedia entry you attached, I want to point out that contraposition is a formulation of traditional logic and philosophy. I do not believe this is equivalent at all with actual experimentation. Broken symmetry may be a contraposition, HOWEVER it has been demonstrated in a number of different scales of different experimental systems to actually exist and is of cryptic (because not well recognized) importance. That it has been demonstrated takes it out of the philosophical to the real. Of course, someone with a "constructivist" "anti-science" worldview would never accept that. But to me much of philosophy is being replaced by natural experimental science, albeit with cries of dismay by philosophers of science. And the beat goes on.

Nice Dear Len Troncale

Dear Len Troncale, thanks for your detailed answer where it is interesting you're biologist. One reason I got interested into nonlinear system, symmetry breaking was related to the research of Pr Ilya Prigonine (self-organized nonlinear systems perturbated from their equilibrium). The other reason concerns nuclear physics wether fission or fusion. One can ask in the case of nuclear fission (i.e. Uranium) of the excess energy released does not correspond to a symmetry breaking.

Dear Patrick Thomas Fraser

So the idea behind my question was to imagine a system holding up stable due to a given symmetry then if this symmetry is broken, what energy can be released but not considering a knowledge of this released energy neither knowledge of the energy holding the initial symmetry.

Hello Albert:

This aspect has become quite important in Grand Unified Theories.

My original analysis will indicate that spatially local asymmetries generate energies to make global symmetries, while in the process time will become asymmetric. What will keep space and time transferring energies to drive symmetry? My answers based on my findings of the dimension 5 will be that "sense". A lot more knowledge of quantum relativity physics with advancing Standard Model and Theory of Everything as Superstring Theory, Supersymmetry, among others are necessary to get a handle on this universal principle.

Thank you for sharing this research. We will have ongoing communications.

My articles here on RESEARCHGATE about macro time asymmetry relativistically and micro time reversibility quantumwise will tell how nature seems to oscillate between symmetry and energy!!

Sincerely,

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