• Question: have you ever quit half way through your experiment

    Asked by kunjanddonal to Ben, Jony, Katharine, Mark, Peter on 18 Nov 2011. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Ben Still

      Ben Still answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      I started working on the experiment I am currently on in 2005 and it is thought that the experiment will last until at least 2018 so I am not yet half way through. We have suffered some set backs recently with the major earthquake that hit Japan in March, but we all still soldier on. I hope to still be a part of the experiment when is finally switches off.

    • Photo: Katharine Schofield

      Katharine Schofield answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      nope, I’ve always seen it through

    • Photo: Mark Basham

      Mark Basham answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      Hi kunjanddonal,

      I have had times where we realised we were not going to solve a problem in one particular way(which was really annoying as we had spent 3 months trying to), and we had to change our approach and start again, but that’s all part of science. In the end we solved the problem and got the results that we wanted

    • Photo: Jony Hudson

      Jony Hudson answered on 18 Nov 2011:

      Yeah, we’ve had to turn back many times to try a new approach, but never quit 🙂

    • Photo: Peter Williams

      Peter Williams answered on 18 Nov 2011:

      i often come up against problems where you have no choice but to pack up and go home for a while. but i always come back and try again. So no, i guess

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