▲ | throwawaymaths 7 months ago | ||||||||||||||||
> 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. | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | alganet 7 months ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I have so many questions. How do you know the evolutionary model of these early organisms? How do you know that a competition had taken place? If you can't know if it is by chance of not, why hypothesize it? | |||||||||||||||||
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