• Question: When you hear the word experiment, what is the first thing that comes to your mind?

    Asked by nerd101 to Ben, Jony, Katharine, Mark, Peter on 22 Nov 2011.
    • Photo: Mark Basham

      Mark Basham answered on 22 Nov 2011:

      hi nerd101,

      For me it means an experiment which is taking place at Diamond, and things that come to mind are all about managing the data which is collected by the experiment, processing it, keeping it safe and ultimately getting it to the user in a form that they can use.

    • Photo: Ben Still

      Ben Still answered on 22 Nov 2011:

      Testing Nature and our understand of how it works.

    • Photo: Katharine Schofield

      Katharine Schofield answered on 22 Nov 2011:

      Testing out our understanding of something.

    • Photo: Peter Williams

      Peter Williams answered on 22 Nov 2011:

      There’s a cartoon that sums it up – but i can’t find it. i’ll have to describe it.

      So there’s a guy who presses a button and gets an electric shock. The second picture is titled “normal person” – the guy says, “better not touch that again”. The third picture is titled “physicist” – the guy says, “hmm, better try that again to establish repeatability”.

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