• Question: What is your favourite piece of scientific equipment? Equipment like, The Telescope.

    Asked by bethl to Ben, Jony, Katharine, Mark, Peter on 15 Nov 2011.
    • Photo: Katharine Schofield

      Katharine Schofield answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      Has to be the Large Hadron Collider. Might as well pick the biggest, most technically advanced thing humans have ever built!

    • Photo: Ben Still

      Ben Still answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      A particle accelerator. We can use energetic particles from these machines to probe the creation of the Universe, basic forces of Nature, the biological tissue that we are made from or even the structure of crystals – to name but a few. Particle accelerators also play a role in areas of medicine, used by imaging machines or as cancer treatment.

    • Photo: Jony Hudson

      Jony Hudson answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      Lasers! There’s something so fascinating about a laser beam. Even though I’ve used lasers every day in my research for the past 13 years, I still find them amazing and stop to play with them at least every week!

    • Photo: Mark Basham

      Mark Basham answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      For me its the humble computer, without it pretty much none of modern science could have been even considered yet alone done.

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