• Question: What is the best question you have ever asked?

    Asked by Bucky to Craig, Flavia, Giuditta, Jack, Sheona on 9 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Jack Carlyle

      Jack Carlyle answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Why?

    • Photo: Giuditta Perversi

      Giuditta Perversi answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Once I was standing beside this huge banner with “Chemistry” written on it, in a public engagement event, and this elderly man came over and asked me “Can I ask you a question that always troubled me? How did they figure out that it was the Earth that revolves around the Sun and not the other way around?”.
      Considering that it was the end of a loooooong day, it was kind of hilarious!

    • Photo: Flavia de Almeida Dias

      Flavia de Almeida Dias answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      I agree with Jack, why is a pretty good one. The simple questions sometimes are the ones which yields to the most complex answers! Why, how, what for… We tend to be pretty good at it as young kids, annoying the adults asking why after why for every answer they try to give us, and then we tend to forget that things are there to be questioned when we grow up. But a lot of the science is based on those kind of questions: how does this thing work? why is the Universe as it is? where do we go next?

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