• Question: What do you enjoy about your work??

    Asked by antoniababeeyxx to Matt, Tom, Hugh, Douglas, Antonia on 20 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by hummer.
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      Matthew Hurley answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I very much enjoy the time between setting an experiment up until the time I get to analyse the data. This bit when I press ‘GO’ is really exciting! It’s also the bit I hate the most too, if that makes sense, ‘cos sometimes something goes wrong and you have start again!

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      Antonia Hamilton answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      finding out new things that no one has ever known before.

    • Photo: Hugh Roderick

      Hugh Roderick answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      The challenge of getting each experiment right and the hope that teh work I do could make a difference to peoples lives.

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      Tom Hardy answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      I enjoy the opportunities I have to learn new things, I am paid to come up with innovative new ideas so I can plan my own work and conduct experiments that I want to do so every day is different. I also get to teach and lecture so I enjoy passing on my knowledge too others, which is why I am doing I’m a Scientist.

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      Douglas Blane answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      So many things. The natural world and how it works is endlessly fascinating. I just love learning new stuff and finding new things that puzzle me.

      The most fascinating part is that the world is so complicated and weird – especially at large and small scales – and yet our brains are able to understand huge chunks of it.

      I do wonder though if the structure of the universe and of space, time and matter might always be too hard for us to get our heads around.

      Those heads, and the brains inside them, evolved to help us eat, sleep and have kids on the African savannah.

      The fact that they’re powerful enough to understand neutrinos, black holes, and the Big Bang – not to mention Fabio Capello talking about football – is pretty surprising.

      But perhaps they’re not powerful enough yet to grasp what’s really going on at scales way bigger or smaller than grass and elephants.

      Wondering about stuff, being puzzled, not knowing the answer to questions but wanting desperately to find out – all that’s what makes you a scientist. Whether you’re 5 or 55.

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