Primordial Soup

What am I looking at?This is a simulation of the creation of life. Weve built an artificial chemistry simulation where you can watch single particles organize themselves into living organisms. Its the sort of thing that might have happened in a drop of water several billion years ago when the earth was young. The difference here is that you can play with life and change it to see what happens.Is it really alive?Its on the edge of being alive. To make it fast, fun, and easy to play with, we took ...