• Question: what would you say is your greatest discovery?

    Asked by miki to Ezzy, Clare, Ben, Sam, Mario on 11 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by cornfielddicks, hearnsteel, benhoward14, trever91, stonegoodier, coombes27, sammy1, smithmoorebell, arusa, biancalouiseward, petersawdas.
    • Photo: Clare Burrage

      Clare Burrage answered on 11 Mar 2012:

      I wouldn’t say that I’ve discovered any thing yet. What I do is try to come up with new theories which can explain how the universe is behaving. But it’s hard to make lots of precise measurements of what is happening far away in the universe, so it’s going to be a long time before we can say whether these theories are right or wrong.
      I’m excited about some work I’ve been doing recently, though, where we’ve been able to understand that there could be new particle which could travel faster than light!

    • Photo: Elizabeth Pearson

      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 11 Mar 2012:

      Mars bars are made infinitely better by their application of hot tea.

      Science wise. Hmm… I look into the mass distribution of the universe. We’ve currently worked out that there’s more than we can see. We’re working on the how and the why of that though.

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