Twisted: Chiral Forms
Posted on April 7, 2007
Filed Under Science |
I’ve known since my first biology class in college that organic molecules come in right- & left-handed versions that are otherwise identical, but I hadn’t been aware of the various speculations regarding how they came to be that way in our neighborhood of the universe. It’s wonderful to think that our proteins & sugars might have gotten their twists from the polarized light emitted by a supernova, or the wind stirring a primordial pond.
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