• Question: If you could go back in time and meet any scientist who would it be and what would you ask them?

    Asked by Amelia125 to Alice, Bose, Christian, Emma, Steve on 10 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by KITKAT22, Olivia Vincent, oscar.
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      Emma Dean answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      I would love to meet Richard Feynman. He was a very clever physicist with a real sense of humour. I would be very interested to know how he pictures physics in his head. I have so many questions to ask him, it’s difficult to know where to start. I think I’d need a very long dinner date with him.

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      Steve Marsden answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      I’d want to go back and talk with Alan Turning. It’s heart breaking to think what we did to him as a society. Given how much his work was overlooked or classified at the time, I’d love to go back and tell him about how his concept of Turing machines (computers) changed the world. How we carry them everywhere we go, and through them can access almost all knowledge ever recorded.

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      Alice Harpole answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      I’d (also) love to have met Richard Feynman. He was a Nobel prize-winning particle physicist famous for his ability to explain difficult physics topics to non-scientists. He wrote lots of popular science books which I would definitely recommend – a couple of them are semi-autobiographical (including Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!) and show that he was quite a character.

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