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352 points instagraham | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 10:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source

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Seems like we've got a few of these imbalances now where you'd expect 50:50 but instead it's skewed to one side where nature had a different idea

Matter-antimatter ratio

Left vs right handed molecules

Now galaxy spin directions

Maybe there are others I missed too

1. yboris ◴[31 Mar 25 11:25 UTC] No.43533690[source]▶

Cosmic Rays May Explain Life’s Bias for Right-Handed DNA

"the rapid decay of pions is governed by the weak force — the only fundamental force with a known mirror asymmetry"

James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise