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Asked by ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ to Craig, Flavia, Giuditta, Jack, Sheona on 9 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by Dat Guy, 266expd24, Izzy.
Question: Do you think that your job can change the world?
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Jack Carlyle answered on 9 Nov 2015:
I hope so! Next week I will be meeting with the people who make weather forecasts and teaching them about “space weather”, and how this can affect things on Earth like sat-navs in cars and massive electricity grids. They want to know about this so they can start thinking about what to do if we were to experience a “geomagnetic storm”. That kind of thing could end up saving the economy billions of pounds… So I hope my presentation is good enough 😀
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Giuditta Perversi answered on 9 Nov 2015:
I don’t think my research alone will turn the world upside down, but I do think it will contribute to something bigger!
My current job on the long run is here to create better electronics and memory storage (just imagine having a phone that it’s even thinner but can hold hundreds of times the data you are storing in it right know, that is what we are aiming for), but I know I need to be patience and that the final results will have my contributions but also other people contributions 😀 -
Flavia de Almeida Dias answered on 10 Nov 2015:
Yes! Little by little, a believe that scientific advance can make the world a better place to live. There are many things which came directly from CERN and the technology we develop to make our experiments: classical one is the WWW (the interwebs!), invented here at CERN by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. A very recent one is that we are developing more accurate and cheaper medical equipment for doing PET-CT scans (an exam to detect cancer cells in the body), based on the bits and pieces we developed to detect particles in our detectors. CERN even has a Technology Transfer Office, responsible for transferring knowledge to the industry and non scientists.
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