• Question: how can we achieve finding important stuff without using advance technologhy

    Asked by anon-174155 to Alex, Carl, Melanie, Tim, Yewande on 20 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Alex Seeney

      Alex Seeney answered on 20 Jun 2018:


      We can make some quite simple yet very important discoveries without the use of anything advanced. Learning about displacement of water (Archimedes’ principle), gravity via a falling apple, refraction of light with a prism of glass…these findings are as much about observing the world around us and interpreting it than anything else.

    • Photo: Carl Barford

      Carl Barford answered on 21 Jun 2018:


      Sometimes people find important things just by sitting and watching, or thinking. For instance, we are still finding new types of insect and animals, we are finding medicines just by talking to people in remote parts of the world who have always know a certain plant was a good cure or something.

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