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Asked by rwn1 to Ailsa, Evan, James, Kath, Ryan on 20 Jun 2011.
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Ryan Ladd answered on 18 Jun 2011:
I think there will be a limit to what I’m able to do, personally, but I’m sure there will be people with more time, money or just more brain power than me who can take it further!
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James Hargreaves answered on 19 Jun 2011:
I believe the only limit to my work would be my own imagination!! 🙂
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Evan Keane answered on 19 Jun 2011:
Yes, my work will have limits. But that is natural. You have to remember that science today focuses on questions people in the past hadn’t even thought up. Today we work on figuring out how stars are born, live and how they die, and how solar systems come to be. But if you go back just a little bit in time, people thought the Earth was flat and everything orbited the Earth etc. They wouldn’t even have come up with the questions we work on today. So I think the scientists of tomorrow (like you!) will be working on questions I can’t even imagine yet!
This is the great thing about science, there is always new things to work on and a never ending universe of things to discover! The more we know, the more we know there is even more to know!
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Ailsa Powell answered on 20 Jun 2011:
Yes there is a limit to my work, the questions are never ending and there is only so much time and there is only one of me. I work by setting goals of what I want to find out and achieve and work towards those, when I achieve those goals I set more. I never think that I have to try and solve every problem, otherwise I would never be able to sleep!
I also don’t know what lies in the future and there may be better biotechnology in 10years time that would make the questions I spend time on now take less time. 10 years ago things that take 20mins would have taken 48 hours! So I make sure that the problems I focus on are the ones that I can reasonably achieve within the 3 years I get funding for and I’m aware that in the future the questions that I just don’t have the technology for today will be answered.
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