• Question: if you got to go back in time and discover something major in the place of another scientist what would it be?

    Asked by late1800 to Louise, Michaela, Sian, Steve, Yvette on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Louise Johnson answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I’d go back to before Mendel, discover the rules of heredity, and then make sure Darwin knew about them, because if Darwin had bothered to read Mendel he would have been able to make a better case for evolution right from the start.

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      Michaela Livingstone answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I would love to have thought up evolution! Kind of seems obvious now, but y’know taking Darwin’s place as one of the most recognised and reknowned scientists of all times, the start of a scientific revolution… that would be nice 🙂 But y’know, to be able to say that you changed the way everyone thought of themselves and the world around them – that would be… truely awesome.

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      Steven Kiddle answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      The jet engine, it was such a cool idea, an engine that has only one moving part and can go at hundreds of miles an hour

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      Yvette Wilson answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I think that it would be Daniel Rutherford who discovered nitrogen by studying what gas was left after leaving a mouse (which eventually died) in a sealed flask, passing the gas from the flask through a carbon dioxide-absorbing substrate and proving what was left was a gas that would not support life or combustion. I like the idea of discovering an element!

      …or the structure of DNA like watson and crick!

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      Sian Harding answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      electricity – i cant think of much thats bigger than that. And Faraday wasnt a top scientist – more a technician

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