Who's That Nerd?
This famous ancient mathematician is credited with the creation of the formula that relates the lengths of the three sides of a right triangle.
Who is Pythagoras?
This number is the 7th prime number.
What is 13?
THIS THEORY STATES THAT THE CURVATURE OF SPACETIME IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE E AND p OF MATTER PRESENT
What is general relativity?
Is the gravitational force you are exerting on the earth bigger than the gravitational force the earth is exerting on you, or is it vice-versa, or are they equal?
Equal
In 1638, this scientist demonstrated that unequal weights would fall with the same finite speed in a vacuum, and that their time of descent is independent of their mass.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This 18th century mathematician named the square root of -1 with the symbol i, founded the study of graph theory, and made countless contributions to topology, calculus, combinatorics, and complex analysis. He also got a mathematical constant named after him
Who is Leonard Euler?
Kepler's First Law asserts that planetary orbits around the sun trace out this shape.
What is an ellipse?
This principle of quantum mechanics means that one can never perfectly know both the velocity and position of an object at the same time.
What is Heisenberg uncertainty principle?
How can you add eight 8's to get the number 1,000? (only use addition)
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
In 1761, Thomas Bayes proves this theorem.
What is Bayes theorem?
This man, often thought of as the father of modern empirical science, spent much of his life under house arrest by the Catholic Church as a result of his championing the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Who is Galileo?
The number of faces on a icosahedron
What is 20?
This famous conjecture first proposed in 1637 and later solved in 1994 by Andrew wiles states that no three positive integers a,b, and c satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n for any integer n greater than 2.
What is Fermat's Last Theorem?
The ideal gas law says that the product of pressure and volume is proportional to the temperature of a gas. How must the pressure of an isolated ideal gas change if temperature is held constant while its volume is decreased?
Pressure goes up.
In 1897, the British physicist J. J. Thomson discovers this sub-atomic particle.
What is an electron?
This mathematician is one of the most important women in the history of mathematics who studied rings, fields, and algebras
Who is Emmy Noether?
This particle accelerator in Switzerland was famously the site of the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the most recently discovered fundamental particle in the Standard Model of particle physics.
What is the Large Hadron Collider?
In 1929, Hubble used this effect in his observations of galaxies receding from us at speeds proportional to their distances.
What is Doppler effect?
A black hole is the result of compressing mass to a volume so small that even light cannot escape the mass's surface. How would the Earth's orbit around the sun change if we instantly compressed the Sun's mass enough to turn it into a black hole?
It would stay the same!
In 1828, George Green proves this theorem.
What is Green theorem?
This mathematician who made profound contributions to the study of abstract algebra died in a duel in 1832
Who is Evasriste Galois?
This language provides many of our modern names for stars, including Aldebaran, Altair and Deneb, because its speakers were leaders in astronomical research during the Middle Ages when many of these names were codified.
What is Arabic?
THE NAME OF THIS THEORY IS DERIVED FROM VIEWING SUB-ATOMIC PARTICLES AS 1-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS, NOT AS POINTS
What digit is the most frequent between the numbers 1 and 1,000 (inclusive)?
Hint: To solve this riddle you don't want to manually do all of the math but rather try to figure out a pattern.
1
In 1998, observations of distant Type 1a supernovas, both by the American astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter and by the Australians Nick Suntzeff and Brian Schmidt, indicate that they are actually further away from the Earth than expected, suggesting this nature of the universe.
What is the acceleration of the universe?