
Does particle spin affect life on Earth?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Left-Handed Amino Acids Are More Likely to Interact With Left-Hound Aminoids
left-handed muons showering the earth coming down on earth through our atmosphere are more likely to interact with a certain type of atom or electron that you can only see on the left-handed molecules. The weak force affects the electric dipole moment and the magnetic dipole moments of these atoms so that affects how the left or right-handed particles will interact with them. Most of the time you see electromagnetic interaction that dominates which is symmetric but the weak force sometimes is a thing that mediates that interaction and so it tends to prefer theleft-handed version of these amino acids.
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