• Question: have you ever made any big mistakes on your work, if so how long dose it take you to fix using the powerful comprters?

    Asked by heisenberg to Glyn on 14 Mar 2013.
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      Glyn Barrett answered on 14 Mar 2013:

      Hi Heisenberg!
      Yes indeed I have made mistakes, but that is why scientists have to repeat experiments to check that they havent made any mistakes. Sometimes you think you have made a big big discovery and its all really exciting but then you repeat and find you get the complete opposite! So its all very annoying and frustrating.
      The good thing with using computers is that they rarely make mistakes and often those are because the person using the computer doesnt know how to use it properly. They are really powerful and complicated computers so its easy to make mistakes on those!
      But a good thing in science is that there is always somebody else who knows more than you and can help you out with your problems. Its great to share. 🙂

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