▲ | alganet 7 months ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
That assumption is even more mysterious. Why one specific handedness "won"? What caused the other one to be food? How can we be sure it was by chance? Lots of questions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | throwawaymaths 7 months ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Why one specific handedness "won"? Place two competitors at the origin on the number line. On any given turn they walk either to the left or to the right, with exactly 50% odds of each. First competitor to +100 wins. > What caused the other one to be food? Basic chemistry. > How can we be sure it was by chance? We can't. If the odds are sufficiently close, we probably can't be sure it wasn't chance, either. If we go to space and find a planet with life with the other handedness, it was probably chance. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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