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Georg Raffelt, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany<br />

The Pool Table Analogy<br />

PONT d‘Avignon, 21-25 April 2008, Avignon, France<br />

P.Sikivie<br />

Sikivie, , Physics Today, Dec. 1996, pg. 22<br />

Gravity<br />

Pool table<br />

Axis<br />

Symmetric<br />

relative<br />

to gravity<br />

Floor<br />

inclined<br />

Symmetry<br />

broken<br />

New degree<br />

of freedom<br />

<strong>Axion</strong><br />

Θ _<br />

(Weinberg 1978, Wilczek 1978)<br />

f a<br />

Symmetry<br />

dynamically<br />

restored<br />

(Peccei & Quinn 1977)

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