• Question: Who is your inspiration and why ?

    Asked by shasow15 to Colm, Eoin, Joseph, Lauren, Stephen on 15 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Joseph Roche

      Joseph Roche answered on 15 Nov 2013:

      My father. He’s the most selfless man I know. And even though I have studied him closely for many years I don’t know how he can be that way. He’s an enigma. And he’s my inspiration.

    • Photo: Eoin O Colgain

      Eoin O Colgain answered on 15 Nov 2013:

      Being impressionable, I draw my inspiration from many people through countless interactions.

    • Photo: Stephen Scully

      Stephen Scully answered on 15 Nov 2013:

      Brian May, Stephen Hawking and Patrick Moore. They just seemed to love what they do.

    • Photo: colm bracken

      colm bracken answered on 18 Nov 2013:

      A great physicist called Richard Feynman gives me a lot of inspiration. He had a great way of making complicated ideas understandable. In fact he often said that if you cannot explain something in a simple way then you must not understand it yourself. He contributed so much to modern physics and created ways to help other physicists understand complicated ideas by using things like special diagrams and really useful approximations. If we are to continue to pass down information from generation to generation then we need to do it in the easiest most fun way possible, and Feynman was great at this. Unfortunately he died a few years ago but his legacy lives on in the labs around the world such as at the LHC at CERN where they still use things like Feynman diagrams to help understand the crazy huge integrals they have to deal with when calculating particle physics interactions, etc.

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