• Question: How do you feel once you have tested and found out the answer to a common question everyone keeps asking?

    Asked by sarahi to David, James, Mike, Suze, Will on 15 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Mike Dodd

      Mike Dodd answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Really proud, happy and excited. It is always great to find out something new, especially when everyone wants to know the answer, but no one has done the experiment yet.

    • Photo: James Marrow

      James Marrow answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      The odd thing is that a lot of science does not actually address common questions – we chip away at our own little bit of science, but then every now and then it’s as if someone has suddenly turned the lights on in a dark room, and it all makes sense (for a while – then new questions start to appear)

    • Photo: Suze Kundu

      Suze Kundu answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Excited! Really excited. It’s a strange feeling, because all the little things that we all do in our labs contribute to a much bigger picture. It’s like everyone contributes a puzzle piece, and together, science is moving forward. Each piece is a huge achievement though 🙂

    • Photo: William Eborall

      William Eborall answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      It’s a great feeling when you’ve been working at something for a long time and finally come to an answer. You can’t wait to tell anyone who will listen to you 🙂 and will even try to tell people who won’t. And every time you find an answer it creates new questions which you become really excited to then start looking at.

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