Possible Scenarios for Homochirality on Earth

Possible Scenarios for Homochirality on Earth
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Download or read book Possible Scenarios for Homochirality on Earth written by Michiya Fujiki and published by Buy this from MDPI Books. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978, Fred Hoyle proposed that interstellar comets carrying several viruses landed on Earth as part of the panspermia hypotheses. With respect to life, the origin of homochirality on Earth has been the greatest mystery because life cannot exist without molecular asymmetry. Many scientists have proposed several possible hypotheses to answer this long-standing L-D question. Previously, Martin Gardner raised the question about mirror symmetry and broken mirror symmetry in terms of the homochirality question in his monographs (1964 and 1990). Possible scenarios for the L-D issue can be categorized into (i) Earth and exoterrestrial origins, (ii) by-chance and necessity mechanisms, and (iii) mirror-symmetrical and non-mirror-symmetrical forces as physical and chemical origins. These scenarios should involve further great amplification mechanisms, enabling a pure L- or D-world.


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