• Question: If you could meet anyone from the past who would it be and why?

    Asked by 438bsmf38 to Ellen, Elliot, Hazel, Rupesh, Thomas on 16 Jun 2016.
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      Elliot Jokl answered on 16 Jun 2016:


      This is a tough question! There are a lot of people in the past it would be very interesting to meet.

      I think the top of my list would be Charles Darwin. He was a really interesting scientist, who traveled a lot and wrote about nature in lots of different places. He also came up with the theory of evolution, which was an incredibly important scientific breakthrough.

      I think it would be cool as we would both get something out of it – I could hear some interesting stories about his travels and the science that he did. And I could tell him about all the evidence that we have been able to find out about evolution with the help of modern technology – I think he would love the chance to see how far our understanding of evolution has come along since he first wrote about it.

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      Ellen Gill answered on 17 Jun 2016:


      That’s a very tough choice, but I think I would have to go with one Nikola Tesla. He invented a lot of amazing things but was also notorious for never writing down his ideas, so a chance to actually find out what was going on inside his head would be nice!

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      Thomas Biggans answered on 18 Jun 2016:


      As Ellen said I think we could learn alot from Nikola Tesla

      I’d personally like to meet Richard Feynman who had some wonderful ideas about physics and could explain his ideas in such imaginative ways. Feynman was also a great problem solver and I’ve admired him ever since I saw the BBC documentary “The Challenger Disaster” which shows how he discovered why the space shuttle challenger exploded. You can find it on youtube here:

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