• Question: what has been the most exiting science experiment you have done

    Asked by anon-206070 to adeliegorce, Gabriel, Jose Angel, Kathryn, Russell on 8 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Gabriel Gallardo

      Gabriel Gallardo answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I’m working on the ATLAS experiment now! We are 3000+ scientists all trying to find out what the universe is made of, how it all fits together, and where it all comes from!

    • Photo: Russell Arnott

      Russell Arnott answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      When I was a Physics teachers, I put smoke inside an Airzooka air gun and it blew big smoke rings. My Year 9s wondered if you filled the Airzooka up with methane and fired it at a Bunsen burner whether it would make a giant fire ring. So we tried it and the Bunsen burner flame ignited the gas and sucked back inside and melted the Airzooka I was holding.
      That was fairly exciting (and stupid. and lucky)…
      [don’t try at home].

    • Photo: Kathryn Boast

      Kathryn Boast answered on 13 Mar 2019: last edited 13 Mar 2019 6:51 am

      I do quite a lot of experiments with liquid nitrogen, which is reeaalllly cold – almost -200C! It’s so cold it can turn normal things into really brittle (hard and breakable) stuff. I’ve cooled down lots of things to see what happens. Bunches of flowers are great – they go really stiff and then if you hit them they shatter like glass. Also fruit is good fun. Raspberries work really well – if you hit them with a hammer, they split into hundreds of tiny, hard pieces of raspberry! It’s a right pain to clean up after, but so totally worth it for the smash!

      One time I went to California where they’re running a miniature version of the dark matter experiment I worked on – it’s not that miniature though, it still takes up a whole room! I helped set up some of the stuff for it, and it was super exciting when they got it all running. The experiment is pretty cold, like -100C. This is me on site at the experiment:

      Sadly I didn’t get to use the massive spanner for anything useful! It was awesome to be part of a team working on this big experiment though!

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