Life

by Laurentiu Mihaescu

Space, gravity, atoms and a little bit of randomness, these are the main ingredients in the most important recipe ever. And there is no need for someone to mix and prepare them, or to throw some cosmic dice; the simple laws of physics are doing it perfectly. This recipe, the Universe and about 10 billion years of "cooking": Somewhere, on a small planet, the first living cells have emerged. 4 billion years later: On that blue planet, humans have built their first interplanetary ship. No...