O for origin

4 billion years ago, asteroids, large blocks of ice and rocks racing through the solar system combined into planets. Our heroine Piccolina, a water molecule inside a frozen meteorite, lands on our planet. As ice melts, H2O molecules like Piccolina become liquid water, the elixir of life.

In water, Piccolina meets molecules of all sorts, linking, combining and getting more and more complex. Piccolina and complex molecules get trapped inside membrane made of fatty molecules. Thus evolves the first cell, the beginning of life...

Selected at Pariscience 2009
See the showing : Wednesday 07th October 2009 from 10h15 to 11h30