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my project is about building lasers, my laser is geared towards a
gravitational mission. What people do is they use
these devices called gravimeters which uses the light coming out of our
lasers
and they measure gravity to very, very high accuracy
so one part per billion and the reason you'd want to do that is
if you can measure gravity underneath your foot, you can
infer the density of the material underneath your foot without drilling
down so
if there's oil or mineral you can infer its presence rather than
drilling expensive, bringing expensive equipment. And then the next step would be to
make it
industry-ready, make it into a prototype because in the industry
they don't hire they don't necessarily have physicists working these machines they
have regular people, so what we would like to do is make an on off switch
so that we can make it into a product so it can be used in the industry
It's a great learning environment
we have, in the physics department we have labs that are
one of a kind in all of Canada
I was originally a biochemistry major trying to get into medical research
and what happened was I had this chemistry class in
first-year and a professor he was talking about all these
things that he called quantum effects about
describing the atoms and I thought it made no sense at all so
I became really interested and that's how I knew I wanted to go into physics