• Question: Whats the most exciting thing about science in your opinion?? :)

    Asked by vedhead to Duncan, Kiran, Paul, Sarah, Sharon on 16 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Kiran Meekings answered on 16 Mar 2010:

      For me, it’s learning about how we work, what can go wrong with our bodies and what we can do to fix them. I think learning is really exciting and I think discovering new things is even better…

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      Sharon Sneddon answered on 16 Mar 2010:

      The most exciting thing in science is discovering new things, a lot of thought and planning goes into experiments, and then sometimes they can take a long time to carry out so finding out that all your hard work has worked, and you have discovered something new is one of the best feelings and really exciting!

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      Paul Stevenson answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      Ooh, well, there’s so much to pick from, but one thing I really like about it is that it is all connected together. Take the workings of the brain, for instance. It is a system made of cells that biologists study, but looking at the way the cells communicate with each other requires understanding the chemical structure – and the rules of quantum mechanics from physics – yet it also links up with computer science and mathematics, since the brain as a whole works in ways similar to a computer (but different in many other ways). A branch of physics, called statistical mechanics, is used to understand how brains work as a whole, too. Then, of course, psychology is needed to understand the behavioural results of brain behaviour. I love that all science is linked up like that and can be used to understand the natural world in so many different and complementary ways. I just wish I had time to study all of it 🙂

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      Duncan Murdock answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      I think the most exciting thing about science is how much there is still to know. We’ve discovered lots about the world we live in, but with each discovery we find there’s more questions to answer.

    • Photo: Sarah Mount

      Sarah Mount answered on 18 Mar 2010:

      Finding new ways to do very complex things in an easier, less error prone way. This is why maths is so helpful in computer science, we can use it to see if our programs are likely to work before we run them!

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