• Question: what is the most interesting thing that you have studied?

    Asked by millie.w to Adrian, Scott, Jim on 7 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Adrian Buzatu

      Adrian Buzatu answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      Data analysis searching for the Higgs boson to understand why elementary particles have mass, without which we wouldn’t exist.

    • Photo: Jim Barrett

      Jim Barrett answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      This may sound weird coming from an astrophysicist, but I found quantum mechanics, the study of really small stuff (like electrons), absolutely fascinating during my degree.

      Machine learning is also really cool, I’m learning about that at the moment (I’m literally taking a break from that to answer you 🙂 )

    • Photo: Scott Lawrie

      Scott Lawrie answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Everything I do at work with particle beams and plasmas is interesting, but I really enjoyed learning about stars at university. It’s fascinating how a simple cloud of gas floating in space can turn into a fantastically complicated star just by adding gravity!

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