• Question: What are your favourite topics to study

    Asked by anon-290472 to Geraint on 17 Mar 2021.
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      Geraint Evans answered on 17 Mar 2021:


      In school it was Maths, Physics and Chemistry and sometimes English.

      As I went through university I got really interested in studying superconductors and superfluids, so that is what I do now! They’re both things that behave very oddly when you cool them down to very low temperatures (some as cold as around -270 degrees Celsius!). Superconductors can become really powerful magnets and superfluids do crazy things like climb up walls and forming vortices (like whirlpools) that never stop spinning!

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