• Question: what is your favourite thing to do WITHIN your job?

    Asked by to Alan, Deepak, Francesca, Lilly, Nick on 18 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Francesca Day answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      I think it’s discussing my results with my colleagues 🙂

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      Deepak Kar answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      Hmm, this gets me thinking. I guess I can say travelling to Geneva (thats where CERN is) is fun, but nothing beats the satisfaction of coming up with a new results, even if its not something huge.

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      Alan Fitzsimmons answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      Wow, that’s a difficult question, there’s a lot that’s fun to do. For my particular job, I guess my favourite thing is being in the control room of a giant telescope, pointing it at the coordinates of the object I’m studying, and taking the first pictures. You never know exactly what you will see or what you will find.

      I guess the best bit for all scientists is when you solve a puzzle or find something unexpected. That gets really exciting!

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      Nick Wright answered on 21 Mar 2014:

      Good question! My favourite thing to do is to discuss ideas and theories with my colleagues. There are lots of discussions in science because thats an easy way to test your theories and to come up with new ideas!

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