also what do you do in science ?

Question: also what do you do in science ?
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Asked by will13 to Alan, Deepak, Francesca, Lilly, Nick on 10 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by luv2dance123, ebonymay.
- Deepak Kar answered on 10 Mar 2014:
  
  Try to find what nature is made of, and why things behave the way they behave? Thats what ” using the largest science machine to look at tiny particles” is all about.
  
  So why we need a big machine? If you think of everyday life, to break up stuff into small pieces, you need energy, right? The smaller the pieces you want, more energy you need. So to breakup the tiny particles into tinier ones, we need a lot of energy. What the big machine does is make particles go around the 27km ring faster and faster, so that they have a lot of energy when they collide against another particle, and breakup into the pieces they are made of. You can think of it as like you are rotating a small stone tied to the end of the string. The more times you rotate it, or the larger the circle is, it gains more speed. More speed means more energy.
  
  But then to make sense of all the data from the machine, we have to write programs on the computer, which is what I do everyday!
- Francesca Day answered on 10 Mar 2014:
  
  I’m looking for particles falling to Earth from space. This means I look at data from big telescopes and hunt for signs of particles in it 🙂
  
  In practice, this means I have to do a lot of maths! Instead of doing all the maths myself, I write programs to get my computer to do it for me.
- Alan Fitzsimmons answered on 10 Mar 2014:
  
  Read my profile!
- Nick Wright answered on 11 Mar 2014:
  
  I study the stars in the sky! I’m trying to understand how all the stars that we see might have formed, and how they will one day die. There are lots of different types of star and so it can be quite complex to work out how they all formed and died in different ways.
- Lilian Hunt answered on 13 Mar 2014:
  
  As it says in my profile, I’m looking at the DNA in the gaps between genes and trying to work out which bits are important and which bits might go wrong in people with diseases and disorders. Technically I am a developmental geneticist…