"It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive (but all of which had once been you.)
I can't believe that just my magically placing these atoms together, you would come out with a human. Come to think of it, there's "organic" matter everywhere the universe, massive clouds of it. It's interesting how regardless of how much of the stuff of life is present, it takes some miracle to spontaneously create life.
So yes, the question really is, how are we even alive? Is it the networking of the molecules? Is it something else that we have no understanding of as of yet? Possibly. It would certainly be neat to find out.
Going off your idea of organic, you can also think about how "synthetic" materials are also organic, thanks to that "Matter cannot be created or destroyed, just transformed" thing. It also makes me wonder why does certain arrangements of atoms become things. For example, a star when it could possibly be a planent or a cloud, ect.
ReplyDeleteThe almost unanswerable question, what was the original twitch that got life started? What was the reason for it happening? Why does life all of the sudden decide to be? These are some of the questions I have.
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