• Question: What have you invented ??

    Asked by chiarna to Peter, Mark, Katharine, Jony, Ben on 14 Nov 2011.
    • Photo: Peter Williams

      Peter Williams answered on 14 Nov 2011:

      there’s no widget that i can point to and say i invented that. but i design particle accelerators, so i can point at a machine and say that i had a major part in making that happen

    • Photo: Ben Still

      Ben Still answered on 14 Nov 2011:

      Every day we have to be inventive, writing computer code to do something unique or solve problems we have on our experiment.

      But… I also get to be creative outside of my research and I think the most fun thing I have invented is LEGO Physics! IWe use LEGO to teach particle and nuclear physics and it is the most fun I have had talking particle physics. LEGO + physics = fun.

      Aside from this I am also quite proud of some of the analyses I have written for analysing data from my experiment – using artificial neural networks and other interesting techniques.

    • Photo: Katharine Schofield

      Katharine Schofield answered on 14 Nov 2011:

      Nothing really in the Wallace and Gromit sense!
      but yeah, you do need to be inventive and creative in science (and in life!) – you come up against little problems and big problems all the time and then you have to try to figure out a way round them.

    • Photo: Mark Basham

      Mark Basham answered on 14 Nov 2011:

      Hi chiarna

      Ive written various bits of software, but the biggest project im involved with is the GDA which can be found at http://www.opengda.org Its a big Java project for helping with collecting and analyzing experimental data.

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