THE ROLE OF CHIRALITY IN THE ORIGIN OF LIFE

The role of chirality in the theories that determine the origin of life are reemphasized - in particular the fact that almost all amino acids utilized in living systems are of the L type. Starting from Z0 interactions, I speculate on an explanation of the above fact in terms of quantum mechanical cooperative and condensation phenomena (possibly in terms of an e-n condensate where the e-n system has the same status as Cooper-pairing), which could give rise to second-order phase transitions (including D to L transformations) below a critical temperature T(c). As a general rule, T(c) is a low temperature. From this, it is conceivable that the earth provided too hot a location for the production of L amino acids. I suggest laboratory testing of these ideas by looking for the appropriate phase transitions.