• Question: what is the most exciting thing in science

    Asked by derekfane1 to David, Rebecca, Simon, Verity, Wei on 15 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by nikita7, bethanyy101, alice16.
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      Rebecca Handley answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Thanks for your question. I’m sure its different for all of us! For me its discovering something new, and for a short time being the only person in the world who knows something 🙂

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      Verity Nye answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      I’m really excited by the ATLAS experiment at CERN in Geneva. Does the Higgs particle really exist? This experiment should give us the answer to this and many other questions.

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      David Armstrong answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      It’s not finished being built yet, but once the ITER project is finished (www.iter.org) it will be the worlds biggest nuclear fusion experiment, and will allow us to understand what we will need to do to build a commercial reactor. It will cost $16billion (more than the Large hadron collider). I think this will produce a lot of exciting new science and I hope I can visit it one day.

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      Wei Xun answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      That’s a hard question and I won’t know much else outside my field. In my opinion, the most exciting happens when two branches of science collide and merge into a super science!

      I have been to a open day recently where the bio-engineering team was developing techniques that combines robotics, 3D-imaging, and remote controlling and live satellite links to enable remote robotic surgery. Ie the surgeon can be anywhere in the world, while the patient is under a robot which copies exactly the surgeons movements live-linked by satellites. The surgeon gets a 3D live feed of what is actually happening to the patient in real-time.

      You might think what’s the point? Well it’s for when the doctor and patient cannot be at the same location,ie on the battlefield, or somewhere remote, or if there isn’t time to transport the patient to the operating table.

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