Operated by CERN, this device searches for the smallest particles of matter.
What is the Large Hadron Collider?
100
4.5 billion or 6000
What is the age of the earth?
100
These battled the angels and were imprisoned underground.
What are demon-o-saurs?
100
Survivor of the survivors.
What is evolution according to Jack and others?
100
He is a reductionist
Who is Mike, Jack, or Neil? POINTS FOR EVERYBODY!
200
Not lacking in brevity, this equation explains all.
What is the Theory of Everything / Neil's Nasty Lagrangian?
200
A probable environment for the origin of life.
What are deep sea hydrothermal vents / the mind of god / asteroids?
200
Disproving hypotheses
What is science?
200
A diagram that shows relatedness of species.
What is a cladogram?
200
A tool to teach children about evolutionary and developmental biology.
What is the Dinochicken/Chickenosaurus?
300
This is the sole source of elements such as Carbon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen on Earth
What is a supernova / stars?
300
A state between order and chaos.
What is complexity?
300
This created the universe.
What is God/Big Bang / Mother Universe /...
300
You can't have half an eye.
What is irreducible complexity?
300
Neil's son.
Who is the next child prodigy?
400
First observed in 1964, physicists use this as evidence of the Big Bang (and to determine the topology & fundamental domain of the universe to boot!)
What is the CMBR?
400
Evolution has a goal
What is teleogenesis?
400
The mind and consciousness exist independently of the brain.
What is dualism?
400
If Darwin had known of these, he would have had an easier time.
What are genes?
400
Diet Coke
What is Jack's favorite drink?
500
This is why the LHC hasn't devoured the world in a black hole (yet!)
What is Hawking Radiation / Giddings & Mangano & the LHC Safety Assessment Group (which used cosmic radiation as an empirical test for the creation of black holes)
500
Originating separately, metabolism and replication merged later according to this.
What is the dual origin of life?
500
This is the source of morality.
What is God / evolutionarily advantageous cooperative behavior?
500
This field seeks to study how life might have originated, and where in the cosmos it could have.
What is exobiology?
500
He was greatly influenced by JFK and his assasination