[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles

[CurtAdams at aol.com]

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:46:23AM -0500, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> > 
> > I would guess it had to do with the Coriolis  effect during 
> evolution.  This
> > is the force that makes water spin one direction over the 
> other while
> > flowing down the drain.  I would guess that it is easier 
> for molecules to
> 

Because the weak force is assymetrical, one form of each mirror image
is slightly thermodymanically more favorable.  The versions in life are,
actually, the favored ones.  However, the effect is tiny - IIRC 1 part in
10^21 or something like that - and nobody has a good model for how that
could get things going.