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Chapter 768: An Experiment Lasting Hundreds of Millions of Years
I saw it on a small cart pushed over by the staff.

There is a glass laboratory container in the shape of a Chinese character “回”.

Among them, two huge round glass balls are the most eye-catching.

Two glass ball vessels are located at the corners of the U-shape.

Some high school students watching the show will find this thing very familiar.

Plus the Miller experiment that Ye Zhen mentioned.

Some people remembered, isn't this mentioned in the biology textbook?
“Everyone wants to know how life came about.

How did a pile of inorganic matter develop into the simplest life?

Here we have to mention the chemical origin.

Originally, the Blue Planet was filled with small inorganic molecules.

In this experimental equipment, in one of the round glass containers.

Some gases were added to simulate the most primitive state of the blue planet.

That was the original gas on the blue planet at that time.

According to calculations, in the original atmosphere of the blue planet at that time.

There are only methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2) and water vapor (H2O).

This is the original inorganic small molecule.

It starts from small inorganic molecules and becomes small organic molecules under the various effects of the blue planet.

And then in the conditions of the entire pristine ocean.

Small organic molecules begin to polymerize and become biological macromolecules.

The next step is the transformation of grass macromolecules into multi-molecular systems.

The instruments in front of us are for simulation.

In the original blue planet environment.

Will organic matter be produced in the atmosphere of the primitive blue planet?

First of all, the air in here has long been emptied.

Beforehand, we add 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 planet.

Next we need to start heating the bottom of this 500ml flask.

Let these gases begin to circulate in this U-shaped glass instrument.

This is when another round flask comes into play.

This large 5L flask was used to simulate the lightning environment on the blue planet at that time.

Here we need to use electric spark discharge to simulate the thundering environment at that time.

I have to say, this is a genius experiment.

Because after going through such a cycle.

The inorganic matter in the glass instrument eventually turned into organic matter.

These organic substances settled at the bottom of the flask.

What are these organic substances?

Including 11 kinds of organic substances including 20 kinds of amino acids.

What are amino acids? Raw materials for synthesizing proteins.

Without these, there would be no basis for life to exist.

Among them are glycine, alanine, aspartic acid and glutamic acid.

There are also small biological molecules, such as ribose, pyrimidine and purine.

It is essential for protein synthesis.

Miller's experiment proved the process from inorganic matter to organic matter.

It is entirely possible and can even be done in our laboratories.

At that time, the original blue star experienced a long period of lightning and thunder.

And after the pristine ocean rains and washes.

Various inorganic substances turned into organic matter and floated in the primordial ocean.

There were a lot of amino acids in the primordial ocean.”

While explaining to everyone, Ye Zhen started to do the experiment.

“Due to time constraints, this experiment would have taken a week.

During this process, electric sparks need to be used to bombard the gas inside continuously.

So last week, I started doing it.”

The experimental instrument in front of Ye Zhen had been subjected to electric shock for a week.

It can be seen that at the bottom of the 500 ml flask, there is indeed some additional sediment.

This process is a bit unremarkable to people who have attended high school, because it has already been explained in books.

But it only laid the foundation for the birth of life.

Some viewers felt confused and impressed.

Ye Zhen began to explain, "In other words, it was because of thunder and lightning."

"Inorganic matter became organic matter, and amino acids were formed."

"This is an important raw material for synthesizing proteins."

"And what if the lightning strikes for a little longer?"

Everyone who has read novels knows that lightning is a very powerful force in novels.

It often represents the power of destruction, punishment, etc.

But in novels, lightning often has strange properties.

For example, the attribute of life carries the power of vitality to survive in desperate situations.

This is very strange.

"Why is it that now, we still don't know how the first life was born?"

"The reason for this may be that the process of life taking place may take time."

"a month of Sundays."

"It was only after hundreds of millions of years of lightning bombardment that the first life on the blue planet could be born."

“And this life is what I called archaea in my earliest program.

If we follow the "Book of Changes".

This is the time when good times come after bad times.

Something like lightning, which possesses enormous destructive power, has been bombarded for hundreds of millions of years.

Logically speaking, everything should be destroyed.

But it is under this endless destruction and death.

The positive pole gave birth to the negative pole, and the first life was born.

This is the archaea, the purple archaea.

The first life was born.

Once you have such a seed, things will become easier afterwards.

But this will take a lot of time.

In other words, life was born from the bombardment of lightning.

Life is born from thunder and lightning.

If our experiment could last for hundreds of millions of years.

These inorganic substances can give rise to life.

Therefore, the birth of life requires an extremely long time.

The process from quantitative change to qualitative change, from inorganic matter to life. "

Hearing this, everyone had varying degrees of shock on their faces.

"So we were all born from lightning?"

"Can lightning have such power? Can destruction and life have the same origin?"

"This is indeed very consistent with our Chinese concept of yin and yang."

Some biologists, of course, know about the Miller experiment.

"Miller's experiment tells us that organic matter can be born from inorganic matter in nature."

"But how do organic matter give rise to biological macromolecules and how do they become life?"

“That’s what we’ve always wanted to know.”

"Could it be that lightning is the key to the birth of life?"

But now they can't verify it.

Because according to Ye Zhen, if the lightning bombardment continues for hundreds of millions of years.

Life can possibly arise from organic matter.

But they simply couldn't operate it.

Because it is a question whether humans can live that long.

This is an unproven process.

Even if they knew that this might 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 projected Black Tai Sui onto the Blue Planet?
Just as Ye Zhen said at the beginning, the little gray men can live for hundreds of millions of years.

Is it possible for them to do such an experiment?
An experiment lasting hundreds of millions of years?

(End of this chapter)