There Is Nothing Dead

Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, a brilliant Indian scientist, meticulously tinkered in his lab. Razors, tuning forks, even metal machinery – he poked and prodded them, not with scalpels and gears, but with gentle electrical currents. To his astonishment, these seemingly inanimate objects responded. Under his patient observations, they exhibited fatigue, reacted to stimulation, and even displayed a kind of metallic "death" when pushed too far.

This wasn't just the hum of electricity, Professor Bose realized. This was a whisper of life in the most unexpected places. It challenged the very definition of life itself. Is it simply the domain of breathing beings?