18 March 2010

What flavour was the primordial soup?

I can't imagine it would take off as a flavour, but somehow it was the taste of early life. I don't suppose they were that choosy, but I wouldn't know. Someone is trying to work it out though by creating the world's largest simulation model - of how life began.

The project's aim is to create a model of the evolution of life from simple basic chemicals by modelling them at an atomic level, slowly scaling the interactions up to create virtual organisms, that can then be turned into real biological simulations. Maybe one day we'll all be able to try the soup out too, with a loaf of crusty bread...

http://www.evogrid.org/index.php/Main_Page

Tried watching the movie, scared me a little bit though.

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