James Tour

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The two are not the same, and you know that when you try to put on a glove.

The glove doesn't fit right.

And so they have this mirror image relationship.

Almost all biological molecules have a mirror image relationship.

So when they will use a prebiotic method to make these molecules, they only get the mixture.

Biology can only run on one.

It can't run on the mixture of them.

It's hard to get one.

Are there modern techniques to do this?

Absolutely.

Are there any techniques that could mimic what went on on an early Earth?

Nowhere close, nowhere close.

And people say it happened on a chiral surface.

People have tried this on chiral surfaces.

They've never gotten good hand in this qualities, never.

So we don't even know how to make the basic building blocks of the building blocks that make us.

We don't know how to polymerize them.

And then even if we had them, we wouldn't know what to do.

So for example, you can take a cell, a living cell, and you can deconstruct it.

You can take it apart.

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