You're familiar with the states of matter we encounter daily – such as solid, liquid, and gas – but in more exotic and extreme conditions, new states can appear, and scientists from the US and China just found one.

You’re familiar with the states of matter we encounter daily – such as solid, liquid, and gas – but in more exotic and extreme conditions, new states can appear, and scientists from the US and China just found one.

They’re calling it the chiral bose-liquid state, and as with every new arrangement of particles we discover, it can tell us more about the fabric and the mechanisms of the Universe around us – and in particular, at the super-small quantum scale.

  • skillissuer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    because a biochemical soup cannot independently select in favor of chirality.

    it absolutely can, it just does so randomly. there are reactions that can amplify that random enantiomeric excess, and then, with exponential growth of one form, you need to be lucky only once

    the first source of chirality could have been a particular piece of char https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAH_world_hypothesis

    this material behaves chirally only in strong magnetic field. this is completely unrelated to abiogenesis