• Question: Which scientific theory do you find most fascinating?

    Asked by Matthew to Daniel, Freya, James, Miranda, Usman on 14 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Miranda Jackson

      Miranda Jackson answered on 14 Jun 2015:

      I am fascinated by the idea in quantum mechanics that nothing is determined until we measure it, and that everything is governed by random chance. It is so interesting that nearly anything is possible (even if it is very improbable).

    • Photo: Freya Wilson

      Freya Wilson answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      I agree with Miranda. We don’t know if something even exists until we check for it. And even then it might not have existed at all until we looked and it randomly appeared.

      But on the flip side I quite like the theory that all the particles we see are travelling through time, but anti-matter is the same particles travelling backwards through time- so does that mean the future has already been planned out?!

      I could think about this stuff for ages.

    • Photo: Usman Bashir

      Usman Bashir answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      Definitely relativity theory. The idea of time-travel, however remote, is very exciting.

    • Photo: James Gilbert

      James Gilbert answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      +1 for quantum here!

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