Massimo 
If you take a Petri dish, castor oil and some ball bearings and put all in an electric field, you might happen to spot an interesting behavior: self-assembling wires who appear to be almost alive
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955_36@Rainmaker1973 You can observe much of the same behavior with a simple bowl of milk and some Cheerios. Baffled me as a kid, but now I know it's just surface tension working it's wonders.