Geology & Earth Sciences 2015

I think it was more than half at Imperial! It was ok though because they sort of expected it and there was things organised for parents when we had our interviews going on. I am taking my dad with me to Southampton on Wednesday because otherwise I have no way of getting down there.

Neither of my parents can come with me to Southampton ):

Oh no didums. Are you getting the train down there then? From where I am it is an awful journey, there are like 4 or 5 changes!

Yes I am. No changes for me though, fortunately!

Hopefully I will see you there then! I have no idea what to expect considering Imperial was so different to expectations!

I'm expecting something informal. I'm not going into overdrive for the whole "prepare a presentation" thing, I can roll off quite a lot about my EPQ anyway so I'll just make sure I know what I'm talking about and I'll bring a copy of the EPQ in too. What're you planning to do for your presentation?

I think I'm going to do Halley's Hollow Earth Theory . I sort of want to do geoneutrinos but I haven't had enough time to do in depth research and the questions would be super hard ( I don't want to set myself up to fail!) what did you do your EPQ on?

I'd never heard of that theory before, I'll definitely have to look it up! Was it an actual scientific theory or just a prevailing view?

FFS, it's been the preserve of science fiction for probably 200 years or more.

All the theories are exciting- but did anyone hear about quite idiotic, but stunning theory? The Cellular Earth? (That actually all universe is clad inside the globe, and we live on its "skin?" Germans even tried to spy using this theory, their results were not conclusive. Wonder why. But then, imagine how space travel would cut the locomotion costs!

Thanks for your helpful comment!



That's very interesting although I'd be very curious to understand the thought process leading to the generation of that hypothesis...

I think some people here need a wake-up call.

Do loads of work on your A-levels, and then get called to interview - only to ruin it with gibberish. It would be like going into a medicine interview and talking about healing crystals and phrenology.

What on earth are you on about? I was asking if this was a hypothesis generated through the scientific method (given the context several centuries ago) or whether it was a mystical or theological argument. I never implied that it was a scientifically valid idea... And I don't know why you're being so aggressive, like you want to be pissed off.

There you go again - jumping to every conclusion you can, and throwing in some internet psychoanalysis to boot.

Nowhere have I said that you think it's scientifically valid - it's the other poster who does. I was replying to you because you sarcastically noted how "helpful" the post was.

I'm not pissed off. You've just invented that because you like the way it sounds.

It's helpful because it's an interesting idea that I didn't know about before. I don't think it's unreasonable for me to be allowed to express interest in things without other people being rude to me? And the other poster didn't say they thought it was scientifically valid, they thought it'd be an interesting and unique thing to discuss at interview.

Hello there! Original poster here!

I think the angle that I was going from is the development of ideas. Sure, it is not considered viable today, but it goes to show an understanding of the scientific thought process. Halley observed something ( the fact that there was magnetic variation) and tried to explain this. This was then proved wrong, sure, But so were many things. Much of newtonian physics does not apply on a quantum level, on to the most up to date physics research, but we don't go kicking newton in the balls. Even Wegener ( we must bring him up in a Geology thread because he is a pretty cool dude) wasn't spot on with his theory of plate tectonics, but the theory evolved and made way to new discoveries.

what they are looking for in a n interview is the ability to think and enthusiasm, not a brilliant understanding of university level concepts- thats what you are going to uni to learn!

hope this cleared some things up :333

Absolutely, I completely understood where you were coming from! It's a change Clip didn't. On top of the things you've mentioned, they're going to want something unique. I think you can say with fairly high confidence that nobody will have discussed that hypothesis with them before!

Hello there! Original poster here!

I think the angle that I was going from is the development of ideas. Sure, it is not considered viable today, but it goes to show an understanding of the scientific thought process. Halley observed something ( the fact that there was magnetic variation) and tried to explain this. This was then proved wrong, sure, But so were many things. Much of newtonian physics does not apply on a quantum level, on to the most up to date physics research, but we don't go kicking newton in the balls. Even Wegener ( we must bring him up in a Geology thread because he is a pretty cool dude) wasn't spot on with his theory of plate tectonics, but the theory evolved and made way to new discoveries.

what they are looking for in a n interview is the ability to think and enthusiasm, not a brilliant understanding of university level concepts- thats what you are going to uni to learn!

hope this cleared some things up :333