Blog post: swansont: A Moment of Science, Please

A Moment of Science

I remember watching a TV special (probably National geographic) on Louis Leakey's expeditions to Olduvai Gorge and the discovery of fossils of early humans. If biology didn't require dissecting frogs, I might have gone in that direction. As it turns out, dissecting circuits and vacuum systems are more my thing. But that's one instance I remember science grabbing me and pulling me in that direction.

The moment of science that hooked me into physics has to be constructing a version of the monkey-and-hunter experiment in my neighbor's basement. (The target drops as soon as you fire the gun, so where do you aim?). I thought that was so cool. That was when I knew I was going to study physics.Read and comment on the full post