• Question: If there was to be a box that contains anything you want, what would be in there (to help with your research).

    Asked by Unicorn to Dan, Jennifer, Luke, Martin, sakshisharda on 12 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Jennifer Paxton

      Jennifer Paxton answered on 12 Mar 2018:


      Oh my goodness, what a fantastic question! Honestly, the contents of that box would need to be TIME and MONEY. Hats the two things that would certainly help my research 👍🏻 There are so many exciting things to investigate but it all takes time and usually costs a lot of money…. so to have more of that would be wonderful 😁
      Any idea where I could find one of these boxes?…… 😉

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      Martin Lindley answered on 12 Mar 2018:


      well a couple of million pounds in cash would be nice 🙂 as that could help me do so much research!!

      but if its not money then I think would want…….hmmm this is tricky

      maybe another mass spec so that I can have two and do twice as many class rooms in twice as many schools …

      that would make my project bigger and faster

    • Photo: Sakshi Sharda

      Sakshi Sharda answered on 13 Mar 2018:


      I would love a box full of money and ideas!!! More ideas = better science!!

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      Luke Williams answered on 13 Mar 2018:


      People speaking about these boxes of money make me nervous! (I work for one of the organisations that fund research in this country – if it were up to me, I’d try to fund everything! Honest!)

      Time would be useful to me too, in the magic box. Also it would help me if I could have all the perfect questions to ask in the box as well. The project that I have proposed would start by writing down the questions that we all think are perfect, but usually the only way to know if something is perfect is by trying it out. In something like this type of project, it may be the case that we only have one go at it, because of time.

    • Photo: Dan Gordon

      Dan Gordon answered on 14 Mar 2018:


      A box that contains time. Interesting that write this on the day that we lost Professor Stephen Hawking who projected that time was not constant. SO if i could slow time down that would be amazing.

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