How I Won at the UK's Biggest Science Fair
"So your entered in the engineer category," she said kindly, "Am I?" I responed, "I thought I was in the scientist category..." It was not off to a good start, fortunately it got a bit better from there... It was a few months ago that I had returned from America, Oklahoma specifically. Where over the last few months I had been recording earthquakes with the seismometer that my next door neighbour had allowed me to borrow. It wasn't a bad time to measure earthquakes over there, what with Donald Trump being elected and all. Whilst I managed to record several physical earthquakes I also managed to miss two magnitude 5 earthquakes, one week before and one week after I left OKC (Oklahoma City). Unlucky as that might have been I had still managed to record a large number of earthquakes. When I returned back to the UK my neighbour encouraged me to enter this regional science fair called the big bang, I had no idea how far it would take me. I entered, without...