Originally published: May 6th 2024 on instagram @neilssciencejournal
Chirality. An implication of complementarity but not exact symmetricity. Much of the world exists in this way, of wholes broken into not-so-symmetric halves; for perhaps the goal they seek to attend is not easily satisfiable by such bleak homogeneity. Why is it that Nature gives us these illusions of exact symmetry, where does it break and what good does that do? Is such an asymmetric distinction ever out of balance? A discussion from molecular biological origins, to anti-particles, evolutionary selection, and even to C.P Snow and Kant's divide between Art and Science, Philosophy and Physics, Music and Mathematics, and the Theorist and Experimentalist.
