What interested you in science first?

Question: What interested you in science first?
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Asked by Lin to Alice, Bose, Christian, Emma, Steve on 5 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by _.annagalbraith._, humna_484, Mollie.
- Steve Marsden answered on 5 Mar 2016:
  
  I’m not sure. I don’t think there was a single point at which I decided I was interested in science. Very early on I found I had a nack for science, but I don’t know if I enjoyed it because I was good at it, or if I was good at it because I enjoyed it.
  
  My evening TV viewing while I was at school was filled with sci-fi shows, which certainly helped to fuel me into wanting to find out more about what could be possible, and what new physics is there to find.
- Emma Dean answered on 5 Mar 2016:
  
  As a child, I was fascinated by the night sky. The stars looked incredible and I loved learning about our solar system. I later found out that science was how we learnt about our planet and everything in space. That’s when science as a subject caught my attention and I wanted to find out more.
- Alice Harpole answered on 5 Mar 2016:
  
  I remember first becoming interested in space after a trip to the London Planetariun as a child. I must have been about 6, and became really obsessed with space as a result (my mother made me a cake in the shape of the planet Saturn for my seventh birthday!).
  
  I also read a lot of the Horrible Science books which I think definitely helped interest me in other areas of science.
- Benjamin Bose answered on 6 Mar 2016:
  
  Einstein’s theory of gravity and the counter intuitive physics it allows, hands down – from tunneling through spacetime to entering new dimensions to ‘moving forward’ in time (and possibly even backward!).
  
  Now when I first came across these things is a question less easily answered. Between the ages 14-16 would be my best guess. Like Steve I can’t single it out to a single point though.

Question: What interested you in science first?

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