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[UncleAl]

The Big Bang launched with an intense massed sector chiral pseudoscalar vacuum background. Its dilution powered cosmic inflation; the Weak interaction froze out left-handed; matter dominated antimatter as broken symmetry forced baryon number and other conservation violations during false vacuum decay. Biological homochirality was universally biased by residual chiral anisotropic vacuum background long thereafter. After all... quantized gravitation theories require supplementing Einstein-Hilbert action with a parity-violating Chern-Simons term ([0811.0181] Constraining effective quantum gravity with LISA). Naughty.

This would overturn all physics. General Relativity loses a founding postulate, the Equivalence Principle, as left and right shoes fall divergently in Einstein's elevator, each shoe fit to a vacuum left foot. Chiral anisotropic vacuum plus Noether's theorem loses quantum mechanics' conservation of angular momentum in kind. Let's get a pair of shoes - macroscopically and chemically identical, opposite geometric parity atomic mass distributions - and find out.

Identical anonymous points (atoms) self-similarly, periodically array in 3-space as 230 crystallographic space groups. 65 Sohncke space groups contain chiral mass configurations. 11 pairs of Sohncke space groups are themselves enantiomorphic, forcing opposite geometric parity (chirality in all directions) independent of contents. Three pairs of enantiomorphic Sohncke space groups contain no conflicting or racemic screw axes. They are our shoe boxes.

Enantiomorphic space groups P3(1)21 and P3(2)21: Single crystal cultured quartz, right- and left-handed respectively. Quartz' atoms are densely packed, 0.01256 nm^3/atom. Would you like to overturn all physics for a footnote? Load an Eötvös balance

The University of Washington Eot-Wash Group
right click on picture "view image" See the 20 micron tungsten suspensory filament at the top.
http://www.npl.washington.edu/eotwas...amminger08.pdf
http://www.npl.washington.edu/eotwas...wfrontier2.pdf

with four solid single crystal test masses of right-handed quartz opposing four solid single crystal test masses of left-handed quartz. If there occurs a reproducible net output, if the Equivalence Principle has an empirical parity violation, if right and left shoes fall differently, then gravitation and quantum mechanics are falsified at their beginnings.

No prior observation in any venue at any scale would be contradicted. Too much fun! Somebody should look.