• Question: Did you ever blow up anything?

    Asked by laoisebyrne to Chris, Adam on 12 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Christian Wirtz

      Christian Wirtz answered on 12 Nov 2013:

      Hi Laoise,

      nothing spectacular. I have set fire to a few of my experiments and blown a few microcircuits (which looked spectacular under the microscope), but I have never caused any kind of large-scale explosion. That is something to avoid in an indoors lab…

    • Photo: Adam Murphy

      Adam Murphy answered on 12 Nov 2013:

      …yes actually. It was a mistake, but it was also pretty cool.

      I was wiring up some LED’s when I was doing an experiment for my physics degree, and I wired it up to a power source that I didn’t realise was far too strong.

      They all kind of exploded at once! It was really bright and blinding.

      It was a mistake, but as mistakes go, it was a fun one!

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