• Question: What do you find hardest about science?

    Asked by Hannah101 to Dave, Ed, Guido, Hugh, Stef on 16 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Guido Bolognesi

      Guido Bolognesi answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      The hardest moment is when you try over and over again to make something work and it just does not work!! Sometime the result of an experiment can be very different from what you expect and you are tempted to give up.

      However the secret is not to get disappointed by negative results as they can always teach you something. Indeed one can learn a lot from its own errors.
      So that you improve your technique, you try it again, and, finally, EUREKA! it eventually works!! 😀 😀

    • Photo: Dave Bond

      Dave Bond answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      When nothing works. There are many times like this, and it is hard to beleive that there is a way forward. But you get there eventually.

    • Photo: Ed Rial

      Ed Rial answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      The parts of science I find hard are the parts that I can’t visualise in my head. I can understand how a ball would fly through the air, and even how an electron travels in our particle accelerator, but I struggle to understand things like computer networks. I can’t picture them in my head and I find it really difficult to figure out what’s going on!

    • Photo: Hugh Harvey

      Hugh Harvey answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      It can be really hard sometimes to understand all the mathematical equations and complicated symbols and signs – but actually if you work through it you can make sense of it all, it just takes time!

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