Question: What is your favourite project that isn't yours? do you like all of the scientists or no because there competition and have you ever been hurt when doing your work

Thaddeus Aid answered on 12 Mar 2015:

Hi,

My favourite project outside of my own is the Large Hadron Collider. It is a big physics experiment where they are trying to understand the very nature of the universe and reality. How cool is that? What they do is they take a part of an atom, speed it up to almost the speed of light, and then they smash it into another part of an atom that is also travelling at almost the speed of light. That seems pretty cool to me.

I love other scientists, there is just too much for any small group of people to do in science. So I work on my things and other scientists work on other things and then we have a great time telling each other about all the cool stuff we have discovered. Sometimes I worry about another scientist discovering what I am trying to find first, but I don’t worry about it too much. There is just so much to do that if that happens I can just move onto a new project to discover even more cool stuff.

The only thing that has even been hurt in my job is my pride when I have thought I have done something well but I have actually made a mistake and done it wrong. Like right now, I had an experiment that I was really proud of, but I messed it up so now I have to redo it and that is taking a ton of my time to do. But I have never been physically hurt doing science.

Hope that answers your question!