• Question: What do you like about all science, and what do you like about your specific job/part?

    Asked by Jess to Huma, Jack, Lucy, Miranda, Peter on 7 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by Angie, Amy, Jonny Lyon, GalaxyJJ, Megan, OikawasAliens.
    • Photo: Huma Shah

      Huma Shah answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      Good morning Jess,

      Science is a varied activity and that’s what makes it interesting. You have an idea and then you test it you – you design how to test your idea and recruit others to take part. Then you talk about your results, these could prove your idea was right, or that the method you chose to test was not quite right, or that your idea was very wrong. Usually more questions are raised than solutions produced or final answers achieved, so you then start investigating the new questions with new ideas and ways to test.

      I love my job because it allows me to design tests around the ideas of Alan Turing. I have lots of results from practical Turing tests which I’m currently writing up for academic articles – I sometimes blog too, the last full-scale experiment, Turing2014 at The Royal Society London has pictures here:
      http://turingtestsin2014.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/eugene-goostman-machine-convinced-3333.html

      Huma

    • Photo: Peter Boorman

      Peter Boorman answered on 16 Nov 2016:

      Hi Jess,

      Great question! I love that science can bring people together – for example, many people can work on the same subject, together as a team. I love my specific area of study, because I love to imagine what the most extreme objects throughout the Universe might look like up close!

      Peter

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