So here's some inorganic life.

This is an inorganic tube.

And as an inorganic chemist, my friends and colleagues make this distinction between the organic, living world and the inorganic, dead world.

And what I'm going to try and do is plant some ideas about how we can transform inorganic, dead matter into living matter, into inorganic biology.

Can we get complex 3D structure automatically assembling in inorganic systems?

These matter particles all interact with the various force particles.

These particles also have anti particles, which have opposite charges.

Because there are some advantages to inorganic systems, like higher speed semiconductors, etc.

Organic and inorganic approaches were used in accelerating the growth of the firm.

This is made bone is made from a mixture of inorganic minerals and polymers.

This is strands of magnetic field. These are not particles, but they behave like particles.

Just think of the proton as an assemblage of little particles a swarm of little particles.

Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead stuff. How improbable is it that life arose? And could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life , chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using a Lego kit of inorganic molecules no carbon that can assemble, replicate and compete.

So using evolution in biology, and in inorganic biology, for me is quite appealing, quite exciting.

Higgs particles, if you will.

So what we're going to try and do is come up with an inorganic Lego kit of molecules.

There are 20 gaps where new particles should be, two of which have been filled by the Pati Salam particles.

Higgs particles have not been discovered.

and become like scattered dust particles,

and become like scattered dust particles,

In my own laboratory, the way we're trying to create inorganic life is by using many different reaction formats.

And there you see unification, because matter particles, electrons and quarks, radiation particles, photons, gravitons, are all built up from one entity.

The different frequencies produce the different particles.

There's a whole zoo of subatomic particles.

By the winds which carry dust particles,

By the winds which carry dust particles,

National primary drinking water regulations synthetic organic chemicals and inorganic chemicals, final rule, 56 Federal Register 3526 (January 30, 1991).

You take these particles. You slam them together.

Tiny particles in the air can cause cancer.

So that they will become floating dust particles.

So that they will become floating dust particles.

You could put signed particles, say sulfuric acid particles sulfates into the upper atmosphere, the stratosphere, where they'd reflect away sunlight and cool the planet.

And I think, if we can make inorganic biology, and we can make matter become evolvable, that will in fact define life.

That's a lot of particles to keep track of.

Deep inside any of these particles, there is something else.

That's a ball of water, and those are dirt particles.

And it turns out that they behave like quantum particles.

That's what Feynman diagrams were constructed for to understand particles.

Some of them are agglomerating together to form larger particles.

But physics does tell us what particles can be produced.

These particles are not uniquely identified by their six charges.

If dark matter exists in our universe, in our galaxy, then these particles should be smashing together and producing other particles that we know about one of them being neutrinos.

Basically, each of these terms refers to some of the particles.

So I was trying to, you know, take the engineer's version Can we build a mechanical system in inorganic materials that will do the same thing?

Several large accelerator research centers were built, and the scattering of particles at high energies revealed a fascinating structure of matter. New particles, called gluons, were found to mediate the strong force.