I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Boron Zone. It has a range of scientists studying all different topics. Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
A Bose-Einstein condensate – they have a temperature of only about 10 nanokelvin. That is 0.00000001 K. Much colder than room temperature at ~298 K. This is the area of physics that I work in!
In answer to what you actually meant… I’m not sure! Seeing unexpected results from calculations from my computer is pretty cool.
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That’s a tricky question to answer! I’d say that the first time I ever saw the signature of another planet in our data would have come close though.
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I don’t even know where to start with this Q. So many cool things. Watching many of the natural things that happen in the wild is cool… being within 50m of leopards in SriLanka, seeing frigate birds train their babies to snatch the food from other birds, crocodiles eating turtles so many things… perhaps I will think of more
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Probably the coolest thing I have ever seen working was while diving up in the Arafura Sea (between Australia & New Guinea). It was a stunning day, the water was calm and as we went down through the first 10m of water there were thousands and thousands of ctenophores, salps and other gelatinous marine creatures in the water column. They were all moving and as the sunlight hit them, they glistened in such an extraordinary way – both white light and what appeared to be all the colours of the rainbow! It was a visually stunning and incredibly peaceful experience!
Some examples of gelatinous plankton can be seen on the following website:
http://www.cmarz.org/images/images_press/index.html
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