• Question: what are you working on at the moment

    Asked by simpsonanwyl to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 12 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Elizabeth Pearson

      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      At the moment I’m trying to work out how loads of very far away galaxies are arranged on the sky. That will tell us a lot about how the universe is made up and how it was created.

    • Photo: Sam Vinko

      Sam Vinko answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      I’m trying to understand precisely how atoms and solid materials interact with extremely intense, hard X-ray radiation. The materials are heated to millions of degrees on incredibly short timescales and eventually explode, but by being clever we can learn about whats going on before they’re pulverised!

    • Photo: Clare Burrage

      Clare Burrage answered on 17 Mar 2012:

      I’m trying to understand what is making the expansion of our universe speed up. Our current theories of physics say that the expansion should be slowing down, so there is a big mystery here!

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