A science communicator is someone who takes ideas or news or discoveries in science and communicates them to an audience of people who aren’t specialists in that science. This could be writing about science – being a science journalist for a newspaper or website – or broadcasting, either on radio or TV or online, or finding some other way to communicate the ideas, like in a live stage show, or through art, or something completely different. A physicist is someone who studies or researches physics. So a physicist and science communicator will find ways to explore the ideas in physics in a way that is intelligible and interesting to non-physicists.
Practically, science communication is often very varied and allows you to try lots of different things – which is one of my favourite things about the job!
A physicist is a scientist who works on physics, so studies how the universe behaves (the etymology is “knowledge of nature”) in terms of energy, forces, space and time. There are many areas of physics, depending on the size of the objects you look at: astrophysics looks at astronomical (so huge!) objects like planets and stars; quantum physics looks at tiny objects like atoms and molecules; but some people also study lasers, magnets, climate…
In everyday life, a physicist will try and answer the questions he/she has in his/her subject by working on his/her experiments, or sometimes on simulations on a computer, or sometimes by solving equations with a pen and paper. Physicists also spend a lot of time learning about their subject because there are always new discoveries you need to know about! Finally, most of them teach when they don’t do research.
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A physicist is a scientist who works on physics, so studies how the universe behaves (the etymology is “knowledge of nature”) in terms of energy, forces, space and time. There are many areas of physics, depending on the size of the objects you look at: astrophysics looks at astronomical (so huge!) objects like planets and stars; quantum physics looks at tiny objects like atoms and molecules; but some people also study lasers, magnets, climate…
In everyday life, a physicist will try and answer the questions he/she has in his/her subject by working on his/her experiments, or sometimes on simulations on a computer, or sometimes by solving equations with a pen and paper. Physicists also spend a lot of time learning about their subject because there are always new discoveries you need to know about! Finally, most of them teach when they don’t do research.