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Sunday, December 13, 2020

Chirality in "Breaking Bad"

"Breaking Bad" is so elegant. 

In "The Cat's in the Bag," Walt tells his students about chirality: mirror-image molecules. Two chiral molecules can contain the same atoms, but behave utterly differently from one another. 

The staircase at DEA Headquarters (in Albuquerque's Simms Building lobby) descends to the left, like most spiral staircases do. The staircase in the Superlab, however, descends to the right. For right-handed people, the Superlab staircase would be uncomfortable to use. 

Law enforcement and criminality are chiral worlds. 

 



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