whats the most hardest inestigation have you had to make?

Question: whats the most hardest inestigation have you had to make?

Asked by chelgee to Laura, Lily, Mark, Paul, Sarah on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: Scientist.
- Mark Roberts answered on 22 Jun 2010:
  
  Erm I guess my pHd as I was first looking at how bacteria responded to light and that was very hard to get reproducible experiments – so I changed to working more on how they sense chemicals
- Lily Asquith answered on 22 Jun 2010:
  
  I’ve spent the last four years working on an analysis to try and find a particle (the HIggs Boson) that we think exists but we have never seen. If it does exist we will find it with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
  
  It has been very hard at times. there are so many things that you have to keep in your head at once. Also I had to learn how to programme computers in a language called c++ which was, at times, so painfully difficult that I thought about giving up.
  
  I’m glad I kept going.
- Paul Roche answered on 23 Jun 2010:
  
  Well, any investigation where you are trying to weigh an invisible object (like a black hole) that is thousands of light years away from Earth is going to be hard, but sometimes it is even more difficult as there is a lot of gas and dust in the way as well. So I’ve had to investigate star systems where we cannot actually see the star at all in optical light, and have had to use infrared light, radio waves and X-rays only. That often means getting space satellites and several ground-based telescopes to all work together, which is really hard to organise!
- Sarah Bardsley answered on 23 Jun 2010:
  
  Where to move to after returning from travelling!! That and investigating how sound radiates from a cricket. This was at uni in my last year. I have live crickets delivered to me and had to pick them up. I must admit I was a bit scared of them and used to bride my housemates to help me!

Question: whats the most hardest inestigation have you had to make?

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