• Question: what do you like most about science?

    Asked by eleni1 to Chris, Susan, Josh, Rebecca, Rob on 14 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Sammy, holster2003, _trxpQueenie_, Fish, RoRo, Eli, owen, Mollie and Sam, dumbo, 230hafc26, 126hafc45, Lekishan, caylen_11, tibby!, joshua.s.
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      Susan Cartwright answered on 14 Jun 2015:

      To quote a book title by Richard Feynman, “the pleasure of finding things out”. I like the idea that I might discover something new that would help us to understand the universe better. I like the way science evolves, with new answers always prompting new questions. I like the fact that clouds (“this experiment does not agree with expectations”) eventually turn out to have silver linings (“this discrepancy with expectation eventually led to new discovery X”). I like its international nature – particle physics in particular has always been a multinational endeavour.

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      Chris Armstrong answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      It’s got to be the “right answers”

      I’m not a fan of ambiguity, or “there is no right answer”, in that way science is almost black and white, you’re either right or wrong. Sure it takes a while to work out which one you were but there is a final word either way.

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      Rebecca Dewey answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      I love that science is absolutely endless – we will go on finding things out forever because we can’t possibly know all the things that there are out there! There will always be something to keep me busy!

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