ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Jeremy England

Jeremy England is a scientist who is interested in how living things came to be. He thinks that maybe the way life started was by chance- like when you mix different colors of paint and see what happens. Jeremy wants to understand how these different things come together to create life.

He thinks that the process of life starting could be explained by the way energy moves. Imagine you have a ball and you throw it really hard. The energy from your throw makes the ball move. According to Jeremy, the same thing happens in nature but with molecules instead of a ball. When you have a bunch of molecules moving around together, they can create life.

Jeremy's ideas are still being tested and researched, but he is excited about the possibilities of understanding how life started in the first place.