• OpenStars
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    173 days ago

    I would argue that the choice of L- or D-molecules is not a physics question so much as a chemistry/biology one.

    • @gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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      3 days ago

      still an important question

      sometimes you hear people say that when we have “figured out everything about physics”, then we’d have figured out everything about the world, as the world is guided by physical principles.

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        123 days ago

        The hubris of that statement could only come from a physicist! We would indeed have a foundation upon which to understand everything many things, if only we could keep up with issues like scale, events happening far away, and historical choices as you pointed it.