Sometimes People Are Smart
I like this idea.The gist is that self-organized molecules (ie: life) will build themselves in a single chirality (organic molecules can exist in two mirror images, chirality is the term to distinguish them; think your right and left hands). Light that reflects from organics will contain a tell-tale signature (polarization) depending on the chirality. This could be used to detect evidence of "life" on other planets. Clever.
| Posted by vinny9 on April 24, 2009 with category tags of space life iwanttoseeleaf |
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