A very clever answer. Although I worry it might not actually carry through. My understanding is that chiral molecules react differently with other chrial molecules. So that if molecules A and B react to give C then the mirror of A reacts with the mirror of B to give the mirror of C.
So the clone might be immune to snake venom (yay!), but all kinds of everyday foods might effect them as if they were snake venom (boo!). But if the clone has (behind them) a whole mirror-world ecosystem then I think they are OK.
There is some particle physics stuff that is believed to break this symmetry intrinsically, without needing another Chiral thing to react with. [I find this really hard to believe, but apparently it is so]. So I suppose over a very long timescale some of those obscure particle interactions might break the symmetry.
Funny, I’d assumed (without really thinking about it) that it was a ROTATED copy, not a front-to-back transposition, even though the text actually said “mirror image”. A flipped copy would have a number of inconsistencies, like which hand it’s comfortable to extend in greeting, or even which side their shirt buttons on.
In our universe’s physics, the symmetry breaks immediately and your clone possibly dies, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality
A very clever answer. Although I worry it might not actually carry through. My understanding is that chiral molecules react differently with other chrial molecules. So that if molecules A and B react to give C then the mirror of A reacts with the mirror of B to give the mirror of C.
So the clone might be immune to snake venom (yay!), but all kinds of everyday foods might effect them as if they were snake venom (boo!). But if the clone has (behind them) a whole mirror-world ecosystem then I think they are OK.
There is some particle physics stuff that is believed to break this symmetry intrinsically, without needing another Chiral thing to react with. [I find this really hard to believe, but apparently it is so]. So I suppose over a very long timescale some of those obscure particle interactions might break the symmetry.
Funny, I’d assumed (without really thinking about it) that it was a ROTATED copy, not a front-to-back transposition, even though the text actually said “mirror image”. A flipped copy would have a number of inconsistencies, like which hand it’s comfortable to extend in greeting, or even which side their shirt buttons on.