Three billion years after inanimate chemistry first became animate life, a newly synthesized laboratory compound is behaving in uncannily lifelike ways.
The particles aren’t truly alive — but they’re not far off, either. Exposed to light and fed by chemicals, they form crystals that move, break apart and form again.
It makes me think of this:
Reminds me of “An Oblique Approach.”
Thought for sure the clip was going to be about the crystalline entity!
So did I.