Chapter 768 An experiment lasting hundreds of millions of years
I saw it on the small car pushed by the staff.
A glass experimental vessel in the shape of a Chinese character is placed.
The two huge round glass balls are the most eye-catching.
Two glass ball vessels are located at the corners of the zigzag shape.
Some high school students watching the show will find this very familiar.
Add the Miller experiment that Ye Zhen said.
Some people remembered, isn’t this what was mentioned in the biology textbook?
“Everyone wants to know how life came about.
In the end How did it develop from a bunch of inorganic substances into the simplest life?
Here we have to mention the theory of chemical origin.
Back then, the Blue Star was filled with small inorganic molecules.
In this experimental equipment, one of the round glass vessels.
Some gas is installed to simulate the most primitive state of the blue star.
That is the original gas on the blue star at that time.
According to calculations, it was in the original atmosphere of the blue star at that time.
There are only methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2) and water vapor (H2O).
This is the first inorganic small molecule.
Starting from inorganic small molecules, they turned into organic small molecules under the various effects of Blue Star.
Then under conditions throughout the pristine ocean.
Small organic molecules begin to polymerize and become biological macromolecules.
The next step is to change the grass biological macromolecules into a multi-molecular system.
The instruments in front of us are for simulation.
On the original blue star environment.
Will organic matter be generated in the atmosphere of the original blue star?
First of all, the air inside has been exhausted long ago.
In advance, we added the gas I just mentioned into this 500ml round flask.
Methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water vapor.
This is the atmospheric environment on the original blue star.
Next we need to start heating at the bottom of the 500ml flask.
Let these gases begin to circulate in this glyph-shaped glass instrument.
At this time another round flask comes into play.
This 5L large flask was used to simulate the lightning environment on the Blue Star at that time.
Here we need to use the discharge of electric sparks to simulate the thundering environment at that time.
I have to say, this is a genius experiment.
Because after such a cycle.
The inorganic substances in glass instruments eventually became organic substances.
The organic matter settled at the bottom of the flask.
What are these organic compounds?
Contains 20 kinds of organic compounds including 11 kinds of amino acids.
What are amino acids? Raw materials for protein synthesis.
Without these, there would be no basis for the birth of life.
Among them glycine, alanine, aspartic acid and glutamic acid.
There are also small biological molecules, such as ribose, pyrimidine and purine, which
are essential for the synthesis of proteins.
The Miller experiment proved the process from inorganic matter to organic matter.
It is completely possible, even in our laboratory.
The original Blue Star at that time went through a long period of lightning and thunder.
There is still pristine ocean after rain and washout.
Various inorganic substances turned into organic substances and floated in the primitive ocean.
There are a lot of amino acids in the primitive ocean. "
While explaining to everyone, Ye Zhen began to do the experiment.
"Due to time constraints, this experiment originally took a week.
During this process, electric sparks need to be continuously used to bombard the gas inside.
So I started doing it last week. ”
The experimental vessels in front of Ye Zhen had been electroshocked for a week.
You can see that there are some additional sediments at the bottom of the 500ml flask.
This is a process for those who have attended high school. It's a bit unremarkable, because it has already been discussed in books.
But it only has the foundation for the birth of life.
Some viewers didn't realize it.
Ye Zhen began to explain, "That is to say, because of thunder and lightning."
"Inorganic matter turned into organic matter, with amino acids."
"This is a synthetic protein "What if the lightning strikes last longer?"
Everyone has read the novel and knows that thunder and lightning are a very powerful force in the novel.
Often represents the power of destruction and punishment, etc.
But in novels, thunder and lightning often have strange properties.
For example, it is the attribute of life, which has the power of survival from desperate situations.
This is very strange.
"Why now, we can't know how the first life was born."
"The reason is that it is possible that the birth process of life takes time."
"A long time ."
"After hundreds of millions of years of lightning bombardment, it was possible for the first life on the Blue Star to be born."
"And this life was me in the earliest program. Said archaea.
If we follow the "Book of Changes".
This is the ultimate success.
Things with huge destructive power like thunder and lightning, after hundreds of millions of years of bombardment.
Logically speaking, everything should be destroyed.
But under this endless destruction and death.
The yang pole gave birth to yin, and the first life was born.
This is archaea, purple archaea.
The first life was born.
With such a seed, the rest of the matter will be easier to handle.
It just takes a lot of time.
In other words, life was born from the bombardment of thunder and lightning.
Life is born from thunder and lightning.
If our experiment can last for hundreds of millions of years.
These inorganic substances may give birth to life.
So the birth of life takes an extremely long time.
The process of quantitative change to qualitative change, breakthrough from inorganic matter to life. "
Hearing this, everyone had varying degrees of shock on their faces.
"So are we all born under thunder and lightning? "
"Does thunder and lightning have such power? Are destruction and life actually coming from the same source? "
"This is indeed very consistent with our Chinese theory of yin and yang. ”
Some biologists, of course, are aware of the Miller experiment.
“The Miller experiment tells us that organic matter can be born from inorganic matter in nature.”
“But how do organic matter give birth to biological macromolecules, and how do they become life.”
“This is what we have always wanted to know.”
“Could it be that thunder and lightning are the key to the birth of life?”
But now they can't verify it.
Because according to Ye Zhen, if the bombardment by thunder and lightning continues for hundreds of millions of years.
Life may be born from organic matter.
But they couldn't operate at all.
Because whether humans can live so long is a question.
This is an unproven process.
Even if they know that this may really be the process of the birth of life.
Humans can’t.
But what about the rest of civilization?
What about the imperial civilization that was projected onto the Blue Star?
Just like what Ye Zhen said back then, the Grays can live for hundreds of millions of years.
Is it possible for them to conduct such an experiment?
An experiment lasting hundreds of millions of years?
(End of this chapter)