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'Toy Universe' Could Solve Life's Origins

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Simulated organisms before they are scanned and sent on a rocket journey to an asteroid. From EvoGrid: The Asteroid Eaters. Credit: DigitalSpace

Space.com

July 8, 2009

The EvoGrid envisioned by Bruce Damer and a group of international advisers is a simulation of the primordial soup that they intend to use to gain insights about the development of life on Earth by studying the interaction of virtual particles with specific physical properties. "We will be constructing a model of a 'toy universe,' which has approximate properties of the early oceans on Earth," Damer says. 

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