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westurner 21 hours ago

From "Amplification of electromagnetic fields by a rotating body" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41873531 :

> ScholarlyArticle: "Amplification of electromagnetic fields by a rotating body" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49689-w

>> Could this be used as an engine of some kind?

> What about helical polarization?

If there is locomotion due to a dynamic between handed molecules and, say, helically polarized fields; is such handedness a survival selector for life in deep space?

Are chiral molecules more likely to land on earth?

> "Chiral Colloidal Molecules And Observation of The Propeller Effect" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3856768/

> Sugar molecules are asymmetrical / handed, per 3blue1brown and Steve Mould. /? https://www.google.com/search?q=Sugar+molecules+are+asymmetr... https://www.google.com/search?q=Sugar+molecules+are+asymmetr...

> Is there a way to get to get the molecular propeller effect and thereby molecular locomotion, with molecules that contain sugar and a rotating field or a rotating molecule within a field?

westurner 21 hours ago | parent [-]

Though, a new and plausible terrestrial origin of life hypothesis:

Methane + Gamma radiation => Guanine && Earth thunderstorms => Gamma Radiation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42131762#42157208 :

> A terrestrial life origin hypothesis: gamma radiation mutated methane (CH4) into Glycine (the G in ACGT) and then DNA and RNA.