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Does particle spin affect life on Earth?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Cosmic Asymmetry of Life in the Universe

Pasteur wrote that there must be some sort of cosmic particle asymmetry which is generating this fundamental asymmetry in life so like 100 years before we discovered parody violation he basically predicted it wait what he was thinking maybe the reason that life on earth is mostly left handed one type of molecule is something like something from space. He had the sense that maybe thehandedness of life came somehow from the handedness of the universe well feels like a little bit of a stretch there further to make that connection but you know people write a lot and most of their predictions are wrong but when they do hit the jackpot people later on dig them out, I wonder if Nuschodemus would agree

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