2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/25495In these lectures we look for parallels between symmetry breaking in the early universe and condensed matter systems, and discuss experiments that display these.13 pages, published in the Proceedings of the National Workshop on Cosmological Phase Transitions and Topological Defects (Porto, Portugal, 2003), ed. T.A. Girard (Grafitese, Edificio Ciencia, 2004), pp11-23Other Condensed MatterPatterns of Symmetry Breaking in Cosmology and the Laboratorytext