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organic molecules
- In life: The earliest living systems
…chance, but, once a particular asymmetry was established, it maintained itself. Optical activity accordingly is likely to be a feature of life on any planet. The chances may be equal of finding a given organic molecule or its mirror image in extraterrestrial life-forms if, as Morowitz suspects, the incorporation of…
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time
- In time: Time in particle interactions
The time asymmetry was shown in certain abstruse experiments concerning the decay of K mesons that have a short time decay into two pions and a long time decay into three pions.
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