• Question: What has been the most interesting discovery/ invention that has happened while you've been working in your job?

    Asked by julietjustluvsscience to Adrian, Gaia, Jim, Scott, Vicky on 8 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by Izzy.
    • Photo: Adrian Buzatu

      Adrian Buzatu answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      Clearly the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN. It was so important that the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded in 2013. The existence of this elementary particle confirms we understand why elementary particle acquire mass. Without their mass, they would fly around the universe at the speed of light, atoms would not exist and we would not exist.

    • Photo: Jim Barrett

      Jim Barrett answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      I actually work closely with some of the guys who made the discovery of gravitational waves a few weeks ago, so maybe I’m a little biased.

      Gravitational waves are really cool though 🙂

    • Photo: Scott Lawrie

      Scott Lawrie answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      The machine I help to run was used to discover really cool properties of carbon nanotubes. Nanotubes are the strongest, most flexible and most electrically fantastic materials known to man. They could do anything from making really efficient solar panels to bigger, stronger bridges. Nanotube research got the Nobel prize a couple of years ago.

    • Photo: Gaia Andreoletti

      Gaia Andreoletti answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      The sequencing of the human genome in 2003. Without it I would not be able to do my research.

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