• Question: if you didnt study your area in science, what area would you like to study?

    Asked by shmexiibob to David, Helen, Ian, rhysphillips, Sarah on 13 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by ohhikiara.
    • Photo: Rhys Phillips

      Rhys Phillips answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I think if I wasn’t studying lightning and aeroplanes, I’d like to study acoustics and the science behind how musical instruments work. Or use physics to design rollercoasters – that would be cool!

    • Photo: Helen Fletcher

      Helen Fletcher answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      Hi shmexiibob, ooooh that’s a good question. I think I would be study to be an archaeologist so I could go and discover some lost pyramids in Egypt.

    • Photo: David Corne

      David Corne answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I work on how to make computers do smart and useful things. You can think of that as a kind of “computer psychology” – looking at how do computers behave, and why, and how could we make them behave differently. If I wasn’t doing that, I’d be doing human psychology. Most probably I would specialise in how people perceive the world, how sometimes they get false/crazy beliefs and work on how we can fix that.

    • Photo: Sarah Cook

      Sarah Cook answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I’ve always been interested in animal behaviour – probably due to my crazy cats!

    • Photo: Ian van der Linde

      Ian van der Linde answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I’d like to be an astrophysicist, trying to find out about the Universe by analysing data from radio-telescopes and satellites!

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