[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:50:09PM -0500, CurtAdams at aol.com wrote:

> 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.

This effect is not observable in chemistry. It supposedly makes the material
world possible, though, by virtue of providing an excess of matter vs.
antimatter during Big Bang. 

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