Cathy Foley on what fired her enthusiasm.
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00:00So we're going to cool this down and, um, I'll just, um...
00:05How can you not be enthusiastic about levitating a magnet on a superconductor
00:10or just actually understanding that how does the world work?
00:13You know, why is it our brains work?
00:15Or, you know, why is it good weather today and bad weather tomorrow?
00:19And I think just wanting to, you know, get in there and understand the details,
00:23that's what I find really interesting.
00:25And that's always what's excited me, getting into the bottom
00:27and understanding how does it work.
00:29And what he did was he got helium, you know, the gas we put in balloons?
00:33Yep.
00:34And he passed it through a small tube.
00:36And I want you to do an experiment.
00:37Now, if you go like that.
00:38I think I was a very curious child.
00:40I was told I was always in strife because I was experimenting all the time.
00:45I think it's something where I was probably encouraged as well,
00:48which is lucky.
00:49Sometimes kids, when they paint the newly freshly painted walls with Vegemite,
00:53which is apparently a family story, when I was three years old,
00:58they saw that as funny rather than naughty.
01:01So that sort of thing.
01:02Getting into a place where my dad used to have lots of tools,
01:05it's amazing I've got my fingers and toes still,
01:07because I used to love making things.