• Question: If you could meet any scientist who would you meet?

    Asked by Orange Juice to Jillian, Connor, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 15 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by now watch me nay nay.
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      Jillian Scudder answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Hmm, right now, probably Neil deGrasse Tyson. While he’s not an “active researcher”, his work with the general public has influenced me a lot, and I’d love to be able to sit down and chat with him about science.

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      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Definitely Richard Feynmann – a brilliant physicist with an unconventional approach. And he explains things very well indeed. Unfortunately he is dead. So if we are talking about people who are alive today, Steven Weinberg who knows a lot about the fundamental forces of nature, or Roger Penrose who tried to connect physics to human consciousness. And David Attenborough who, although a presenter, did so much to convey science to the general public. I just realised how old these scientists are, so for the youth vote, I’ll take Brian Cox.

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      Steven Thomson answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      If I could meet any scientists in history, it would have to be my two idols: Paul Dirac and Emmy Noether. Both lived in the early 1900s, and they made two of the biggest discoveries ever in theoretical physics: the Dirac Equation and Noether’s Theorem.

      The Dirac Equation predicted particles called antimatter, which travel backwards in time. Noether’s Theorem tells us why most of the rest of physics works. They’re both mindblowing discoveries!

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