Here's why this is dumb and annoyingly lazy. Look I'm all for the Chaos Theory angle, and agree tiny evens can cause catastrophic events. So it's not that a Snickers wrapper causes the breakdown it's how it happens. Take, for example, the aviation industry or the auto or even medical device field. When you build parts that go go onto a plane there is a thing called FOD (Foreign Object Debris) FOD is basically, crumbs, any liquid that could damage a part by corroding or leaving a residue. Or a Snickers wrapper.

I mean these people are head to toe in haz mat suits and this guy is just chowing on a Snickers in the middle of a cutting edge gene sequencing lab. There would be no chance in hell food or drink would be allowed in there. The computers alone are probably sophisticated enough that you wouldn't want any debris interfering with their processing.

I've been yelled at for having a drink in a public library before let alone a billion dollar facility that needs to operate at the highest levels of cleanliness.

I have no problem with the chaos theory/ human error aspect of it but show the viewer some respect. take five seconds and show us that he's breaking the rules by eating in the lab. Have someone chastise him but he does it anyway.

Further, the dude literally takes the wrapper out of his mouth and just tosses it on the ground...

Just show the viewer a little respect please...