In 1953, a young man from the Federation in his twenties conducted an experiment with the help of his mentor.
He placed a large amount of methane, ammonia, and other substances in an encapsulated device and continuously heated the water storage part of the device. The water vapor generated from the heating entered a bottle containing a discharge device and a mixture of gases simulating the primitive Earth's atmosphere. After that, the reacted water vapor would enter the condensation tube and recycle.
After this device operated a simple cycle for several times, proteins detectable by equipment appeared inside.
Thus, humanity declared with confidence that they had initially solved the problem of the origin of life.
This was the famous Miller-Urey experiment—"Miller" and "Urey" were the names of that young man and his mentor, respectively.
This experiment was both simple and elegant.
However, it wasn't very convincing.
