• Question: what topics do you like in science

    Asked by 284utec33 to MarthaNari on 25 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Martha Havenith

      Martha Havenith answered on 25 Jun 2015:


      Hey 284, I love anything where parts interact and influence each other dynamically. For example water currents and waves (a friend of mine used to research how waves form – it’s fascinating!), bird swarms and ant colonies, quantum particles and molecules, even crowds of people… I think the world is full of these kinds of ever-changing interactive systems. If you took a picture of them at one moment in time you could say something interesting about them (for example, how many ants are outside the nest and how many stay at home on average?), but to really understand how they work you need to describe them in action!

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