So... Noisy liquid. Got it
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
43 points (100.0% liked)
science
18556 readers
721 users here now
A community to post scientific articles, news, and civil discussion.
rule #1: be kind
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
WHAT?
NOISY LIQUID!
I read the article, but one thing I don't get: if this were done on a larger scale what would this state of matter look like to us? Like how similar to a liquid would it be?
It would look like two materials placed together, this is only talking about the flow of electrons - something you won't be able to see at any scale.
chiral bose-liquid state
i am aware of arguments against abiogenesis that insist on a "creator" because a biochemical soup cannot independently select in favor of chirality. and yet, biology is clearly selected in favor of the Levo-handed amino acids.
it is interesting to see in the published drawing above that electrons in this state form a chiral vortex similar to the bio-skeletal aromatic ring. in this way, this newly discovered quantum structure can contribute to our understanding of abiogenesis.
👍
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