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#3 - Professor Lee Cronin - Inorganic life, 'Chemputers' and Evolution
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Harry B Houston
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Season 1
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Episode 3
From digitising chemistry to looking for inorganic aliens, Lee gives us his fascinating insight into new, revolutionary ideas in Chemistry.
Full synopsis:
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Defining life
13:20 - Testing life with Polyoxometalates
16:20 - The Markov model
19:48 - Inorganic life and space exploration
25:08 - Chemputers and using them to search for inorganic life
32:52 - The uses of Chemputers in the future
40:00 - Turning Chemistry into an information science
47:37 - Using past data in digital chemistry
51:09 - Extro