• Question: If you could tell us one key fact about what you specialise in, what would it be?

    Asked by 08hathwayr to Andrew, Daniel, Hayley, Natalia, Peta on 17 Nov 2011.
    • Photo: Peta Foster

      Peta Foster answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      My one key fact would be that plasma is far more common than the other 3 states of matter (solid, liquid and gas) and that it makes up over 99% of the known universe. A good reason to study it i think 🙂

    • Photo: Hayley Smith

      Hayley Smith answered on 16 Nov 2011:

      My one key fact is that at the ISIS facility there are over 2000 visiting scientists per year that come to use the neutrons that we produce – so that makes me feel kind of good since the science our group is doing is enabling lots of others to do science too. I think 2000 visiting scientists is quite a lot, before I started to work here I didn’t really realise the “scale” of science…

    • Photo: Daniel Scully

      Daniel Scully answered on 16 Nov 2011:

      I work with particles called “neutrinos” and I think it’s mind boggling that there are over 10 billion neutrinos coming from the Sun which pass through your body every second!!! That’s hard to get your head round but it’s true!

    • Photo: Andrew Cairns

      Andrew Cairns answered on 17 Nov 2011:

      That cyanides are interesting! Yes they have a scary past, and we have to be careful, but that’s no reason not to study them!

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