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[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 3 weeks ago

Even if they had a complete model of all of physics, it still wouldn't answer all questions, as a lot of important data is just random. Whether nature decided to go with D-molecule or L-molecule is essentially random.

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

iirc L-aminoacids and D-sugars, that is these observed in nature, are very slightly more stable than the opposite because of weak interaction

probably it's just down to a specific piece of quartz or soot that got lucky and chiral amplification gets you from there

also it's not physics, or more precisely it's a very physicy subbranch of chemistry, and it's done by chemists because physicists suck at doing chemistry for some reason (i've seen it firsthand)

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