• Question: in what decade do you think that was the most scientific decade?

    Asked by E_kelleher to Francesca, Laura, Matthew, Andrew, Rebecca on 18 Nov 2014.
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      Andrew McKinley answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      This is impossible to answer really – depending on the discipline, you’ll get different decades!
      The decade 1900-1910 was pretty amazing for physics; it saw the birth of quantum theory. 1920-1930 was also fairly significant as it was the period when quantum theory was married to classical physics.

      But, in truth, the best decade for science is the one leading up to the present day! It has seen more scientific advances than any other decade, and we are accelerating our research all the time!

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      Laura Schofield answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      I agree with Andrew’s point that the best one is this one!!! We have made such incredible progress these last few years! When I was 15 (10 years ago) I had a nokia 3210. Google it, it was like a brick! There were 3 good things about it, 1 the battery lasted for a week!! 2 it had an awesome game called snake. 3 even if you dropped it on a stone floor, it wouldn’t break! But it didn’t have the internet or games or anything like that. Also, the medical breakthroughs that have happened are amazing! People are getting body parts made by 3D printing put inside them! And they work!!!! And just a couple of days ago a probe landed on a moving comet!!! That is incredible!! None of this could have been done 10 years ago!

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      Matthew Camilleri answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      Well, thankfully people are opening up more and more to science, and they are realising that science is important. The last 10 years have seen some significant discoveries being made, and I predict that the next 10 years will be even more eventful, as the research would be even more home hitting.

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      Rebecca Ingle answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      For me the 1920s was probably a ‘golden age’ of science, just because a lot of the science I love was just being started then.

      However, science has been moving so rapidly for such a long time – experiments which were unimaginable 100 years ago are now being done, though I have a lot of respect for ‘old school’ chemistry. Not only was it very risky but they didn’t have a lot of fancy equipment to tell them what they’d made – you had to be very clever about it.

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