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The astrophysicists say that no matter how far things come apart, they never come further apart fundamentally than proton and neutron which always and only coexist. While one is convertible into the other, the masses are not the same. The conversion of one into the other is only by virtue of each having two side energy effects. In other words the proton and the neutron have its two side energy effects. These are like the resultant and the reaction. And in relation to complementarity. . . The Nobel Prize being given 16 years ago to two young men who discovered that the complementarity was not in mirror-image, as it had been assumed up to that time. We had been assuming that all you had to do was to multiply the Universe by two. For some years it was discovered and demonstrated scientifically, physically, that the complementarity was not the mirror-image.
I’d like to give you a way you can understand how the proton and neutron, which do not have the same mass, yet are interchangeable one with the other, are always known to coexist and are complementary to one another: how could they then do this and not be mirror-image?
