Different Perspectives, Different Views
He understood what was being said, but the back-and-forth movement was making him feel a little confused. Just as he was about to say something, he heard footsteps behind him, followed by a loud voice.
"That's just Old Yi's analysis from a biological perspective. In my opinion, the fundamental reason why the DNA of life on this planet is left-handed is still a matter of quantum mechanics and the direction of the planet's chiral rotation."
Hearing that loud voice, Yue Yuan knew it was Liu Miyan. This guy had just been inside the bridge and must have overheard his conversation with Yi Kai. He probably had his own opinion now.
"Oh, it's Old Liu. What? Do you have another explanation?" Yue Yuan asked cooperatively.
"It's just a tired old argument." Liu Miyan shook his head, walked to the other side of Yue Yuan, and then said in a loud voice, "You should have noticed that this planet rotates from east to west, right? Our Earth rotates from west to east, just like Venus, it's the opposite."
"Yes!" Yue Yuan Yi Kai nodded. They had both seen the direction of rotation of the Wolf 1061 c, and it was indeed reversed.
The so-called forward and reverse rotation here is based on the Earth, which rotates from west to east, that is, clockwise. In layman's terms, it rotates from left to right, but clockwise rotation is not the same as right rotation.
So it's not that if you point your head towards the Northern Hemisphere and your feet towards the Southern Hemisphere, it means the rotation is from west to east, and if you turn your body upside down, it means the rotation is from east to west. No, it's not like that.
Yes, it's easier to understand if we change the rotation from west to east to right-handed.
If you turn your body upside down, you'll see that the Earth rotates clockwise.
This is chiral right rotation. Simply put, if you hold the Earth in your right hand with your thumb pointing to the North Pole, the direction of your four fingers indicates the direction of the Earth's rotation.
If you turn your body upside down, you still need to hold it with your right hand to make sure that your thumb and four fingers correspond to the North Pole and the direction of rotation, respectively, hence the name chiral right-handed planet.
As for this Wolf 1061 c, it must be held with the left hand to conform to the setting where the thumb points to the North Pole and the four fingers rotate in the same direction as it.
Therefore, although the universe does not have a distinction between east, west, south, north, front, and back, it does have a distinction between left and right. Any civilization that has discovered the law of Parity Violation of Weak Interaction knows this law.
Imagine you're communicating with an alien. You say, "We agree that those with right-handed spin are called 'right-handed,' and those with left-handed spin are called 'left-handed.'" Then you present the alien with a Cobalt-60 experiment Parity Nonconservation. The alien will then naturally understand what "left" and "right" mean.
As humans, Yue Yuan Yi Kai obviously knew that the Cobalt-60 experiment verified that Parity Nonconservation, so they didn't foolishly say anything like flipping the Solar System, flipping the planets, or flipping the Milky Way Galaxy.
At this moment, Liu Miyan, with one hand on the railing, turned to look at Yi Kai and Yue Yuan, and continued, "From the perspective of the Quantum World, it can be explained as follows: due to the left-handed chirality of this planet, its Main Sequence Star photons inevitably exhibit a left-handed tendency upon contact with the planet."
Therefore, the earliest ancestors who obtained energy through light were also influenced by a left-handed tendency during long-term evolution. Because photosynthesis is a continuous and uninterrupted process for the formation of life, it inevitably affects the structure and properties of life.
"In other words, photons must be involved in the formation of life. Because this planet is chiral and left-handed, the photons that reach the planet also tend to be left-handed. Under the long-term interaction of the planet's left-handedness and light, the life on this planet has developed Levorotatory DNA structure."
"The movement, left-handed tendency, and entanglement of light quanta affect the organic matter formed by photosynthesis, and from small to large, they affect the structure, characteristics, and properties of organisms, thus forming the Levorotatory DNA biosphere."
In this process, because a planet's spin has remained unchanged since its formation, regardless of how many evolutionary stages life has gone through, the 'left-handed driving force' has always been influencing it. Therefore, the dominant DNA pattern of life on Earth is right-handed, while the dominant Levorotatory DNA.
Upon hearing this explanation, Yue Yuan frowned and looked at Liu Miyan, somewhat puzzled, "That's true, but... most of the enzymes on this planet are right-handed. Since light quanta tend to rotate left-handed due to the planet's rotation, there's no reason why the proteins, enzymes, etc., they make up should be right-handed."
Yue Yuan felt that, according to what Liu Miyan, other large organic molecules should also be left-handed, since the 'left-handed driving force' was always there.
"Because it is stable and solid."
It was Yi Kai who spoke. He seemed to recall for a moment, then explained, "I wonder if the Chief ever played with jump rope, or maybe a wooden top, when he was a child. If he did, then the Chief will understand easily."
When weaving a rope made of straw, if you twist a single strand clockwise, you need to twist it counter-clockwise when intertwining it with another strand to ensure a secure bond.
"The same applies to the rope used for wooden tops. The rope used by right-handed people is also woven in a double right-handed direction. This way, the rope will become denser with use, because right-handed people swing the top to the left."
If you give the spinning top string of a right-handed person to a left-handed person, the string will become loose after only a few spins, and if you continue to use it, it will eventually come apart completely.
As he spoke, Yi Kai guessed that Yue Yuan was from a certain era and was afraid that he would misunderstand that he was talking about the kind of plastic spinning tops that you can buy on the market, so he even made a few spinning top-playing poses.
Then he explained that it was a kind of spinning top that rural children played with. It was made of wood, and the rope was also woven from tree bark. During the competition, one side would spin their top on flat ground, and the other side would swing their arm from two or three meters away to aim and hit it. If they hit it, the top that spun longer would win.
To be honest, after Yi Kai's description and gestures, Yue Yuan roughly understood what kind of spinning top it was, but he had never played with one when he was a child.
According to Yi Kai, those wooden spinning tops must have been from the 1990s. The fact that Yi Kai, a member of the Zero Zero Generation, had played with them made Yue Yuan quite curious about his childhood joys.
Despite his curiosity, Yue Yuan didn't ask any questions at this moment.
Yi Kai's analogy was simple yet easy to understand; at least Yue Yuan was no longer confused.
Whether analyzed from a biological or purely physical perspective, it's all scientific research. Yi Kai wouldn't just come over and explain left-handed and right-handed rotation to Yue Yuan for no reason.
Yue Yuan believed that Liu Miyan the same way.
After analysis, they will definitely follow their own ideas and use their own methods to study this Levorotatory DNA biosphere. Only in this way can they truly get things done.
Sure enough, the next moment, Yue Yuan saw Yi Kai rubbing his hands together like a fly, and then he changed the subject and began to talk about the research project he was preparing with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Liu Miyan also revealed his fangs, demanding funding, resources, and talent.