• Question: how long do you think you will continue being a scientist and in that time what else to you wish to discover??

    Asked by bellaTGS to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 15 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Lidunka Vocadlo

      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 15 Jun 2015:


      @bellaTGS Probably another 15-20 years. In that time I would like to be able to show how some of the terrestrial planets evolved and what is happening in there deepest interiors. At the moment we know a little about the Earth’s deep interior and almost nothing about the interiors of other planets. I would also like to find out more about what happens to materials at very high pressures and temperatures. It looks like some quite strange things may happen at conditions that are out of reach of experimentalists, but within the reach of a computer calculation.

    • Photo: Steven Thomson

      Steven Thomson answered on 15 Jun 2015:


      I hope to continue being a scientist for the rest of my career, so maybe another 50 years or so. In that time, I’d like to figure out how to make superconductors work without needing liquid nitrogen – this would be a huge discovery and it would really change the world for everyone!

    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 16 Jun 2015:


      I hope to continue being a scientist for a long time! I hope I have several decades of sciencing ahead of me. Hopefully I will have discovered things I can’t even imagine right now, but I’d like to understand far more about the galaxies that inhabit our universe!

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