• Question: What is your best discovery regarding your work?

    Asked by nicola to Eoin, Colm, Joseph, Lauren, Stephen on 11 Nov 2013. This question was also asked by shasow15.
    • Photo: Eoin O Colgain

      Eoin O Colgain answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      Hi Nicola, finding a new solution is always nice. For example, for black holes solutions we have many famous names: Schwarzchild, Kerr, Kerr-Newman, Reissner-Nordstrom all named after the scientists who discovered/popularised them. Incredibly, Schwarzchild found his solution while serving in the first world war,
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Schwarzschild

      Using a transformation on a well-known Brandhuber-Oz (1999) solution, I found a new example. The solutions are rare! This is only the second example in this class and as a result of its novelty I was able to publish it in Physics Review Letters, a physics journal of general interest. Paper can be found here:
      http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1212.1043

      Funnily enough, I was not looking for this solution when I found it. Fingers crossed my name sticks to this in some way!

    • Photo: Stephen Scully

      Stephen Scully answered on 15 Nov 2013:

      So far my work is still in the design stage. We are going to build the telescope over the next year and hopefully we will discover the first evidence for inflation, B-Mode polarisation in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation from the Big Bang.

    • Photo: Joseph Roche

      Joseph Roche answered on 16 Nov 2013:

      I discovered how to manage my time better. I hope this will lead me to many other discoveries.

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