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Comments on a novel approach to the role of chirality in the origin of life

✍ Scribed by Julian Chela-Flores

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
501 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
0899-0042

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✦ Synopsis

We review a recent paperm in which a specific enhancement factor (i.e., a phase transition into a condensed Bose mode) is proposed to account for the observed amplification of the ground state energies of the L-and D-amino acid enantiomers; the difference between these energies is assumed to be due to the neutral parity-violating electroweak interaction. This physical effect initially shifts the enantiomer energies by about 3 x 10 -l9 eV. The proposed phase transition is characterized by a critical temperature T,, which may be studied theoretically by enlarging the standard electroweak theory to include either the top quark or supersymmetry.

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