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^{By Amal Pushp, Affiliate Physicist at the Resonance Science Foundation}  

The mathematical property named “symmetry” manifests itself essentially at all scales in nature. From the petals of flowers down to the domain of atoms and molecules, symmetry plays a crucial role in shaping the structure of matter and unveiling the nature of physical reality. The definition of symmetry can change depending on the situation for example, the geometry of an object and its invariance under certain rotations or reflections might give a general mathematical idea of its symmetry but in physics, symmetry specifically concerns a change in a particular physical process or interaction. A physical process is said to be symmetric with respect to a change if it remains invariant despite the induced change.    

There exist several types of symmetry in nature, and when it comes to particle physics, we are primarily...