The Ambidextrous Universe is a popular science book by Martin Gardner covering aspects of symmetry and asymmetry in human culture science and the wider universe. It culminates in a discussion of whether nature's conservation of parity (the symmetry of mirrored quantum systems) is ever violated which had been proven experimentally in 1956.The book was originally published in 1964 with the subtitle Left Right and the Fall of Parity with a revised version following in 1969. A second edition was rel...