• Question: if you had to pick a specific part of science what would you say was the most interesting and most thought conveying area?

    Asked by anon-257947 on 25 Jun 2020.
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      James Smallcombe answered on 25 Jun 2020:

      I would have to say Quantum Mechanics. This strange way the nano-scale world behaves is at the heart of much of new physics for at least the last 100 years. Even with years of study it can still be hard to get your head around because it is so different to anything we can see and experience with our own senses.

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      Roan Haggar answered on 26 Jun 2020:

      Most scientists will give you a biased answer here, as we usually study whatever we find most interesting! I’m an astrophysicist, because in my opinion, everything to do with space is really cool. Our Universe is so incredibly big, and there’s so much in it that we don’t understand, but I find it amazing that from Earth we can look out into space and try to understand where our entire Universe has come from, and how it’s changed over billions of years.

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      Susan Cartwright answered on 29 Jun 2020:

      I think the answer to that depends on what you find interesting! I think that quantum mechanics is interesting and thought-provoking, because nobody really understands how it works, but for someone who is more interested in living things than in physics quantum mechanics is basically irrelevant. Such a person might thin, for example, that how life as we know it came to evolve was the most interesting and thought-provoking area. As someone else has said, you’re not going to get unbiased answers from anyone here, because we obviously didn’t choose to go into areas that we thought were NOT interesting!!

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