At 04:19 PM Tuesday 7/5/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Julia Thompson wrote:
I came across the following statistic just now:
18% to 22% of twins are left-handed
fewer than 10% of non-twins are left-handed
I'm wondering why that would be, now.
Maybe because they are mirror images of the sibling :-)
That's only for monozygotic twins, and not very many monozygotic twins are
mirror twins. (I've only known 2 pair of mirror twins out of all the
monozygotic twins I've met....)
But then that raises the question -- what were the handedness of Good
Spock and Evil Spock? :)
If you are asking about those in James Blish's original novel "Spock Must
Die!", they were perfect mirror images, since the other one was formed when
the transporter beam (modified to propagate FTL) was reflected back to the
_Enterprise_ after it hit some sort of force field which acted as a tachyon
reflector . . .
As far as "Good (?) Kirk" and "Evil Kirk" in "The Enemy Within," the latter
was created by reversing the film and printing Shatner's image backwards,
so presumably it would make it appear as if his handedness were
reversed. (No hard data is available on whether printing the film
backwards made him a better actor.)
Chirality Conservation Violated? Maru
-- Ronn! :)
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