• Question: Has your research proved anything yet?

    Asked by h6nn6h to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 15 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by megan1999, tonieastup123, beccacee2, howmayer1, lmcglone19.
    • Photo: Catherine Rix

      Catherine Rix answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I’m working on an instrument to look for life on Mars. It’s not going until 2018, so we’ll have to wait and see!

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I found some fossils that showed that plants grew out of the sea and onto land over a billion years ago, twice as long ago as people thought!

    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I’ve only just started, so not yet!

      Thought I did prove something in my Master’s degree, that it’s really hard to design a plane that will fly on Mars.

    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Well…. I did measure Hubble’s constant during my PhD which I’m pretty proud of (so how fast the universe is expanding).

      I have also been involved in the discovery of “red spirals” with the help of people in Galaxy Zoo. And I discovered in the Galaxy Zoo classifications that bars are more common in redder spirals. That gives us information about how spiral galaxies change as they age – because redder spirals in general mean older spirals (in terms of the ages of the stars in the galaxies).

    • Photo: Nazim Bharmal

      Nazim Bharmal answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      My research has proved lots of things, but they are all small things in instrumentation so nothing amazing. However, look at the side of a two pound coin, and you can read the following quote,

      “Standing on the shoulders of giants”

      which is part of a bigger quote from Newton who said he could only do as much as he had because he had been able to use the contributions of other scientists before him.

      My dream would be to help develop an instrument that could take images of planets that are in orbit about other stars, and that may not be that far away: I think humanity will be able to do this before I retire…

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