• Question: What is your favourite thing to do in Science?

    Asked by anon-267549 to Roan, Zsolt on 10 Nov 2020. This question was also asked by anon-269992.
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      Roan Haggar answered on 10 Nov 2020:

      It’s hard to say! One of my favourite things is solving problems. Science can be a bit like a jigsaw puzzle, where you have lots of little bits of information (plus information that other people have found), and you have to piece it together to understand what’s actually going on. It’s hard work, but a really nice feeling when you finally work out what’s causing the thing you’re looking at!
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      One of the other parts I like about science is meeting and speaking with other scientists. A lot of people imagine that physicists spend all their time sat in a room by themselves doing maths, but it’s not the case at all! An important part of being a scientist is talking to other people about your work, and listening to their thoughts. This can help you think about things from a different perspective, which can be extremely useful. It also often means you can end up having some really interesting conversations, which is always a bonus!

Comments

  • Photo: Jesse

    Jesse commented on :

    I like performing experiments to see new things and occasionally destroy materials with lasers

  • Photo: Andreas

    Andreas commented on :

    Learning things that are new to me, but it is especially fun to learn something that is new to everybody! Playing with gadgets is a close second!

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    Sangeeta commented on :

    My favourite thing in science is the excitement I feel when I am figuring things out. I am a mathematical epidemiologist which means that I study how infectious diseases spread using maths. Lots of time when I write software to try and understand the data that I have, at first nothing will make sense. And gradually as I keep at it, trying to understand one little thing at a time, the whole picture is revealed. It is like someone is showing a beautiful scene to me bit by bit. It is most fun when what we see at the end is surprising or unexpected.
    My second favourite thing is how truly global it is. I work with people from all over the world, and I can be at home anywhere in the world with my notebook, a pen and a computer.