Origins of Life
I got up at 7:30 this morning, sleepy but still think of going to the symposium in Radcliffe Gymnasium near harvard squire. Then I went to the lab and did some experiment, left it, caught a shuttle to harvard squire, sleepy and dreaming in the moring sunshine….when I found my route to the building, it was already started, and the room was almost full, a splendid, classic hall with wooden shafts and floors and yellow lamps. It was a symposium discussing origins of life, with the most brilliant brains meeting here, there was some kind of aurora, just like the spectrum they are looking from the space and stars…I only heard one talk by a female professor from University of Arizona, who discovered many orgnic chemicals from planetary observations, such as glycoaldehyde. She looksed just like the style in science fictions and movies, smart, confident, optimistic and strong in speech. Her idea of looking for organic molecules from other stars and clouds to build up the origin of life from the evolution of stars as well as this molecules is just a new way of exploration compared to the old way of looking for water…The 2nd talk is on pyrite and rna stability, i almost fell asleep….then at the break, I took a coffe and have to leave for the experimnts, missing an interest talk on rna evolution…
