Tanisi – Year 9 Student
Editor’s note: Year 9 student Tanisi recently attended a one-day science trip to the University of Cambridge. Tanisi reflects creatively here on the experience. CPD
Our visit to Cambridge University exposed us to a fascinating intersection of science and culture. The university is a celebration of all disciplines of research, with monuments such as the Corpus Clock demonstrating the relativity of time, the Fin Whale skeleton outside the museum of Zoology, and a plaque memorializing the discovery of DNA outside the Eagle. The Cambridge Union represents the community and collaborative aspect of science, hosting some of the greatest minds in the world to further scientific conversation and the generations of scholars to come.
The event commemorates the unification of separate fields, the foundations of what tethers us all to each other, we stood witness to this during the Physics At Work exhibit- showcasing a vast range of professions which all hinge on science. Science remains immaterial, providing amnesty from the language barriers that divide us, allows scientists from across the globe to understand one another, utilizing the universal continuity of science to transcend borders as a means of communication. I believe all of these demonstrations evidenced the significance of science. Even if we don’t realise it, it holds a great hand of influence over our lives; the complexities of what we initially deemed simple (refer to the water balloon, how it had reacted in the way we had originally assumed veiled with intricacies beneath the surface). Only after acknowledging the fundamentals of our reality, can we truly aspire to progress society. END
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