• Question: What is your favorite experiment to do

    Asked by anon-201659 to Sophia, Sarah, Meirin, George, Emily, Andy on 13 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: George Fulton

      George Fulton answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      I haven’t yet carried out this experiment but I really want to run what is called a DIC tensile test experiment. (Digictal image correlation). Basically, you break something but take lots and lots of pictures as the object breaks in real time. Infact, you can get a lot of interesting data from an experiment like this. It’s a combination of high-end photography and really cool physics 🙂

    • Photo: Meirin Oan Evans

      Meirin Oan Evans answered on 14 Mar 2019:

      I really love ❤️ my experiment, the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) (see for example a picture http://united-states.cern/accelerators-and-detectors/atlas-experiment )
      The ATLAS experiment is a particle physics detector longer than 3 school buses 🚌, taller than 5 giraffes 🦒 and weighing the same as the Eiffel Tower 🗼 !
      It’s located 100m underground and took over 10 years to build.
      There are about 5000 people from all around the world working on this experiment, making it a very diverse international community, which I think is beautiful!

    • Photo: Sarah O'Sullivan

      Sarah O'Sullivan answered on 14 Mar 2019:

      I really love it when I get to take my samples to other places to do measurements on them. Last weekend I took a load of samples to the Diamond Light Source at Harwell to measure them using xrays. Doing experiments at big facilities like that is always cool

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