• Question: What is your favourite particle?

    Asked by David to Angeline, Catherine, Luke, Philip, Shona on 10 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Angeline Burrell

      Angeline Burrell answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      I like electrons a lot. They don’t let themselves get pushed around the way that ions do!

    • Photo: Shona Whittam

      Shona Whittam answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Photons as they are mostly what we use to treat cancer in Radiotherapy.

    • Photo: Philip Moriarty

      Philip Moriarty answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      I agree entirely with Angeline. Electrons. *Everything* around us depends on electrons — colours; the strength of every material; magnetism; every single ipod, iPhone, and tablet; television, the internet… And they’re responsible for stopping us falling through our seat (and from walking through walls*). What’s not to love about electrons?

      * OK, well maybe it would be better if electrons didn’t stop us walking through walls…

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