Like the universe and its mirror version are different

Kitty could not digest the glass milk with appearance. Worse still, if it contained bacteria with the opposite hand, its immune system and antibiotics would have been mistreated to fight. A group of important scientists recently Assigned against the synthesis of life forms of the mirror image For this reason: if someone were to escape the laboratory, they could evade the defense mechanisms of regular life forms.

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Continuing along the Tana del Riglio, we see traces of chirality up to the elementary particles.

Pasteur’s work on the molecules was based on a previous discovery by Augustin-Jean Fresnel, who in 1822 realized that several quartz prisms could send Light’s electric field in one of the two directions, in total or counterclockwise. If each particle of light could leave a trail of smoke in its wake, a screw of right smoke would emerge from one prism and a screw for Mancini from another.

Nowadays, physicists consider chirality a fundamental property of all elementary particles, just like charge or mass. The particles that do not have the mass always travel at the speed of light and all also transport an intrinsic corner motorboat as if they were turning as a higher part. If the particles fly in the direction of the thumb, their tour follows the direction in which the fingers are enriched, on the right hand or on the left.

The situation is a little more complicated for huge particles, such as electrons and quarks. Since a massive particle travels more slowly, a rapid observer could pass it and effectively reverse its direction of movement, thus launching its apparent handle. For this reason, when they describe the chirality of massive particles, physicists often refer to the mathematical description of the quantum properties of the particle. When a particle is rotated, its quantum wave function moves to the left or right according to its chirality.

Almost every elementary particle has a twin through the gaze. An electron for Mancini loaded negatively is reflected by the anti-postry, a right-wing particle loaded negatively.

In the world of glass, Alice finds all the logic on: people run to stay on the spot and celebrate the “non-birthdays” in every day when they were not born. In the same way, our universe differs from its specular image. The weak force, the responsible force of radioactive decay, is felt only by particles for Mancini. This means that some particles will decide in the normal world while their counterparts in the mirror no.

In addition, there is a particle that seems not to present yourself in the mirror. The neutrinus was observed only in its manufacturer. Particle physicists are studying if there is neutrino for the right hand or if the mirror images of the neutrino are simply identical, which could help explain why the universe contains something rather than nothing.

There is a lot that we can learn about our world by scrutinizing through the gaze. Just be careful not to drink milk.

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