• Question: What is the most fun experience in science you've had?

    Asked by to Laurence on 14 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Laurence Perreault Levasseur answered on 14 Jun 2014:

      That is a really tough question to pick just one!! I think the number one most fun thing I’ve ever done in science was to participate in a summer school for high school students interested in physics when I was 15. It was in Ontario, at the Perimeter Institute. It was the first time I was meeting with other students interested in maths and physics from around the world, and we were taught really advanced physics ideas and completely mind-blowing theories; we were given a real research project with a real scientist, we met world-class researchers, and that’s the first time that someone was showing me the (actually not very far) frontier of knowledge, that not everything has been figured out yet!

      But then I guess doing science hasn’t stopped being fun since then! I get to have the same feeling of amazement every day when I get to understand a small piece of how beautiful and and elegant the Universe is!

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