• Question: why did you want to become a scienetist?

    Asked by lookiepookie to Zachary, Kristian on 8 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Kristian Harder

      Kristian Harder answered on 8 Nov 2013:

      At some point in school science lessons I got quite impressed with how strictly nature obeys rules. I simply wanted to learn more about those rules. Initially, I didn’t even think about helping to uncover more of those rules. I think I started out just wanting to learn what’s known. Then that kind of automatically led to learning what’s *not* known. 🙂
      And I really wanted to get to the bottom of it, meaning I wasn’t interested in things like chemistry or biology, because I considered all that nothing but complex consequences of the laws of physics. (Complex enough to warrant their own branches of science, because you’ll never be able to understand the function of a dog by counting it’s electrons and protons. 🙂 )
      So, that’s why my choice was particle physics and some philosophy. I would have done more philosophy, but I wasn’t very good at it. 🙂

    • Photo: Zachary Williamson

      Zachary Williamson answered on 10 Nov 2013:

      Because reality both annoyed and fascinated me in equal measure. Everything is just so strange when put into perspective. Here we are, living on a giant spinning rock hurtling through space at 2,000km per second around a continually exploding ball of hydrogen gas, whose explosions we rely on for life and sustenance. If you went back to medieval times and told somebody this, they’d think you were crazy. It’s a crazy place and we only see a fraction of its chaos and madness. I became a scientist to try and learn about how and why the universe is the way it is.

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