Name: 【TED】Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive (Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive)
Uploaded: 2017-11-27T03:09:41.000Z
Duration: 15 min 12 s
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What I'm going to try and do in the next 15 minutes or so

of how we're going to make matter come alive.

but when you look at yourself, you look at your hands,

Now this quest started four billion years ago on planet Earth.

my friends and colleagues make this distinction

And what I'm going to try and do is plant some ideas

about how we can transform inorganic, dead matter

into living matter, into inorganic biology.

I want to kind of put biology in its place.

And I'm absolutely enthralled by biology.

I love manipulating the infrastructure of biology.

although it was established well over 100 years ago by Charles Darwin

evolution still is a little bit intangible.

And when I talk about Darwinian evolution,

And this seems quite a profound question.

we're not used to profound questions every day.

So this raises three really important questions:

Now if we answer those questions in reverse order,

the third question -- is matter evolvable? --

then we're going to know how special biology is,

we'll have some idea of what life really is.

it's kind of pollinating, germinating, growing.

And all these crystals here under the microscope

were dead a few minutes ago, and they look alive.

It's a chemistry experiment where I've made a crystal garden.

But when I saw this, I was really fascinated,

And as I pause for a few seconds, have a look at the screen.

You can see there's architecture growing, filling the void.

if somehow we can make things mimic life,

and that we were the most incredible miracle in the universe.

I wanted to say, "Hang on. What is going on here?

I think that perhaps the emergence of the first cells

was as probable as the emergence of the stars.

And in fact, let's take that one step further.

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【TED】Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive (Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive)

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