Science is my favourite subject and it has been for
more than half my life.
My job aspiration is to be a physicist/x-ray
crystallographer.
Having watched my sister study for her science A-levels,
I have constantly been around an advanced scientific environment. This has
encouraged my enthusiasm for science.
But when did I learn to like science?
My first recollection of interest in science was when
I was 5, (Although my mum says that I asked her why doesn't the moon fall down
when I was 3) I was watching a programme about Isaac Newton and how he
discovered gravity (at this point I didn't even know what gravity was) I became
interested and learnt how earth creates gravity and that it is relative to an
object’s mass. Soon afterwards I learnt of Einstein and relativity. Looking
back it seems like easy stuff but at the time it was way ahead of the curriculum.
But it wasn't until the age of ten that I really became inspired. My best
friend, outside of school, was talking about quantum physics. I was really
interested and researched the topic at home. I learnt of a scientist called
Neils Bohr.
He came up with the Copenhagen interpretation. However
Einstein disagreed with Bohr and after 31 years of cold hard rivalry John
Stuart Bell resolved the problem with his genius test which disproved Einstein!
Neils Bohr is inspiring because of his bravery in standing up against an iconic
figure like Einstein and sticking to his view despite the hatred from the
public who stated, “G-d does not play dice with the universe.”
Another inspiration for me is Nicolas Tesla.
It is not very well known that he invented:
. An alternating current.
. Fluorescent bulbs.
. X rays (crucial for x ray crystallography.)
. The radio.
. The remote control.
. The electric motor.
. Robotics.
. Lasers.
. Wireless communication.
. Limitless free energy.
You may be thinking ‘what about Thomas Edison’. Well
in actual fact Edison was a businessman and he stole Tesla’s ideas and then
made money from them. When Tesla found out he quoted ‘I don’t care that they
stole my idea… I care that they don’t have any of their own.” You may now be
saying, “but how come we don’t have unlimited energy?” Well, imagine the amount
of money that is made every year by electricity companies who generate and sell
energy. Because of this many hit men were actually sent out to kill him so that
they could still make money! Many of his workings are now classified but there
is now a tesla car that generates energy as it drives! Nicolas Tesla is
inspiring because of his ingenuity and advanced thinking for his time.
