• Question: What do you believe the biggest scientific breakthrough is of all time is?

    Asked by imogen98 to Amy, Grant, Martin, Shawn, Usman on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Shawn Domagal-Goldman

      Shawn Domagal-Goldman answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      I would say electricity. Our understanding of electricity has led to sooooo much else, including the computer I’m writing this on!

    • Photo: Grant Kennedy

      Grant Kennedy answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      Tough, there are so many completely different things that have helped us humans. For quality of life it would have to be something like realising that we can get sick from bacteria and viruses. When we stopped thinking that God was punishing us for something and realised we could do something about being healthy it ourselves our lives got a lot better and we now live longer!
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    • Photo: Amy Tyndall

      Amy Tyndall answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      That’s a hard question! For astronomy, I’d say the Hubble Space Telescope has been pretty important – the first telescope put into space. Without Earth’s atmosphere to get in the way, it suddenly opened up the Universe and allowed us to see things in spectacular detail for the first time.

      My most favourite picture ever was taken by Hubble:

      Every bright blob in this picture is not a star, but an entire galaxy! Thousands of them, in a tiny region of space. Blows my mind every time!

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