Thursday, September 6, 2007

Science isn't always exciting.

Today at work I actually watched water boil. Well, I waited and waited and waited, watching for the water to finally boil at which time I had to immediately turn it off only to watch it some more. The technical term for this is "degassing." I wish I could say I used the "waiting" time to contemplate or create. But alas, I did not. I just stared at those tiny bubbles, all blank and stunned thinking how great it would be to take a nap. Who knew there was so much air in a litre of water?

Science: 99% hard (well, not always--see above) work, 1% reward.

1 comment:

Kristen said...

Can you tell us what you love about science? What it is that makes you want to work towards your PhD?

Kristen