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Asked by anon-208725 to Tori, Titus, Stuart, Hannah, Gill, Alessandro on 1 Mar 2019.
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Tori Blakeman answered on 1 Mar 2019:
It depends on what you enjoy really! I personally preferred the theory (as experiments can be challenging!), but experiments can be super fun too!
At university, when I studied neuroscience (science about the brain) I got to do lots of fun experiments including:
– inhaling nitrous oxide (laughing gas) to test its effects on the brain
– dissecting mouse brains and holding a real human brain to learn about the structure of the brain
– eye tests to learn about how the eyes connect to areas of the brain
– pricking our fingers and viewing our blood under a microscope to learn about blood types
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Hannah Dalgleish answered on 1 Mar 2019:
Definitely! I have found the theory in astronomy pretty challenging at times, but going to telescopes and observatories around the world and looking at the some of the best night skies you’ve ever seen definitely makes it worth it. 🌌 ðŸ”🌟
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Gill Harrison answered on 1 Mar 2019:
You don’t prove the theory without the experiments. Some practical people love experiments, as it’s easier to understand something when they’ve done it for themselves.
There’s a lot of theory about how people learn. Some people say we shouldn’t use that, but I think it helps explain why we’re all different. An active learner (activist) likes to try things out for themselves and do things. If you don’t like experiments it might be that you like to read the theories and understand those. I tend to learn better if I’ve seen something and then done it, than if someone tells me about it or I read about it in a book.
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Titus Mutwiri answered on 4 Mar 2019:
Every theory must be submitted to test for it to be approved and elevated as a factual process. This takes place every day and part of it leads to unearthing more hidden facts that sometimes may seem to convolute the whole process but actually it is through seeking to prove these theories that discoveries are done and that research in science becomes real. Yes sit is worth it!
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Stuart Higgins answered on 5 Mar 2019:
Yep – you kind of need both, otherwise you’re just doing experiments in the lab, and don’t really know why… For me, the difference between theory and experiments is less obvious being a scientist than it was at school. Most of my days are a mix of doing experiment, looking at the results and reading around what other people have done/textbooks and trying to understand how what I’ve done fits (or occasionally how it doesn’t …).
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