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I am asking specifically about the transformationI will add "and nothing else". Your use of the word
that reverses
handedness (or orientation).
It may be isometric, but I read in one of
Martin Gardner's books that it is impossible to transform
a Moebius strip
into its mirror image by any continuous deformation.
No. I actually asked, how aliens who had never seen a mirrorSend the chemical formula for a substance with 2 isomers;
would explain both the difference and similarity between say, a right and
left helix.
Or (assuming they are super-intelligent) how would they, on
seeing an asymetrical object for the first time, would deduce that it had
one and only one counterpart (again lacking a mirror).