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>an accident of history. another accident of history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homochirality#Symmetry_breaking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homochirality
by trhway 7y ago
>an accident of history.
another accident of history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homochirality#Symmetry_breaking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homochirality#Symmetry_breakin...
"One supposition is that the discovery of an enantiomeric imbalance in molecules in the Murchison meteorite supports an extraterrestrial origin of homochirality: there is evidence for the existence of circularly polarized light originating from Mie scattering on aligned interstellar dust particles which may trigger the formation of an enantiomeric excess within chiral material in space.[11]:123–124 Interstellar and near-stellar magnetic fields can align dust particles in this fashion."