An unexpected outcome of this work was the suggestion that an influence such as collinear electric and magnetic fields exhibiting false chirality associated with time-noninvariant enantiomorphism (in which P and are broken separately but PT still holds) can induce a breakdown in microscopic reversibility in reaction processes far from equilibrium if chiral particles are involved, in analogy with the breakdown of microscopic reversibility associated with the CP violation observed in decays of the neutral K-meson.
I was also the first to point out (from the CPT theorem) that, in view of the lifting of the degeneracy of mirror-image chiral molecules by the parity-violating weak neutral current interaction, the strict enantiomer of a chiral molecule having an energy identical with the original is that with the opposite absolute configuration but composed of antiparticles (i.e. the CP enantiomer), and extended the analysis to prove that this strict degeneracy holds even if CP is violated. These ideas reveal that CP violation in particle physics, which remains the most enigmatic of all physical phenomena discovered to date, is analogous to chemical catalysis since the CP-violating force changes the rates of particle-antiparticle processes without affecting the equilibrium thermodynamics.