• Question: If you could study one other thing knowing it would be a success what would you study?

    Asked by Nikki0333 to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 16 Jun 2015.
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      Steven Thomson answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      If I could study something and know it would be a success, I’d like to work either on curing illnesses or on stopping global warming. Unfortunately, I don’t know enough about either to really help out with research on those topics, so in the meantime I try to do the best physics I can and hope that in the future the technologies I help create can be used by others to solve these big problems.

      The thing about science, though, is that you never know for sure whether something will be a success – any research project is always a risk!

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      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      @Nikki0333 That’s tricky. Non-scientifically I would say something like war prevention. Scientifically it would either be to be part of an extraordinary mission to other parts of the universe, or, perhaps understanding how the brain works, or something very people orientated….. tricky – every time I think of one thing, I think of another and go “oh yes, that…!”

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      Jillian Scudder answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      I don’t know – things like “curing cancer” always spring to mind, but I might be inclined to study how to make people value science fundamentally. I think if everyone had a tolerant progression of science as a priority, there are any number of people who could change the world.

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