• Question: What would you want to discover?

    Asked by ashahid to Jony, Ben, Katharine, Mark, Peter on 16 Nov 2011. This question was also asked by chels1999, harln002.
    • Photo: Jony Hudson

      Jony Hudson answered on 12 Nov 2011:

      It would be really exciting to prove that our current theories of physics are wrong. Either showing that there are some new subatomic particles that nobody has ever seen before, or proving that Einstein’s theory of gravity was wrong. That would be the dream.

    • Photo: Ben Still

      Ben Still answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      Right now I want to figure out where all of the stuff around us, which we call matter, came from. Everyday experiments tells us that it shouldn’t really exist but because it does there must be some extremely rare things happening to have produced it. I am working with neutrino particles and we believe they may hold the secret to where all the matter came from.

    • Photo: Mark Basham

      Mark Basham answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      With supporting other scientists, for me the best thing would be if someone I have helped manages to discover something amazing. I work with lots of fields but I would be most proud if my work with mapping protein structures led to some new medical developments.

    • Photo: Katharine Schofield

      Katharine Schofield answered on 16 Nov 2011:

      On this one I’m similar to Mark really in that I support other scientists to do their jobs, so it would be really amazing if that leads to an important discovery. I think the next big discoveries are going to come from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. I hope they find something unexpected, which they’ll then have to find a way to explain.

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