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Cosmic Queries – Volcanoes & Life in the Universe
StarTalk Radio
The Left or Right Chorality in Life
Life on earth has a handedness to it, not that you're right-handed to left hand. The molecules twist in a way that they could twist the other way, but they don't. And if they did, we couldn't use it in our life forms anyway. On these rocks or in the star dust, the comet dust, do you have both? Do you have half twisting left and half twisting right? So this is the chorality, isn't it? Chorality is the word. It's just an observed fact. Yeah, that everything is in one way. I'm sure of it. But honestly, my brain has gone blank not having looked at this
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