Download or read book The Physical Origin of Homochirality in Life written by David Cline and published by American Institute of Physics. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Papers from the February 1995 conference explore questions of the necessity of homochiral structure, the homochiral prebiotic medium hypothesis, the potential of homochirality to be used as a signature for existing or previous living systems beyond Earth, and experiments seeking to clarify the origin of homochirality. Contains sections on historical perspective, homochirality and life, models of physical chiral symmetry breaking, and future tests. For chemists, chemical physicists, and astrophysicists. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.