Galilean Relativity
Special Relativity
General Relativity
Black Holes
Misc.
100
This was theorized to be a colorless, odorless, weightless substance that fills space around transparent objects and the medium through which light waves were thought to travel. (disproved)
What is the luminiferous aether?
100

This would happen to your time relative to Earth's time if you hopped into a rocket and traveled close to the speed of light.

What is slow down?

100
This is the theory that says no experiment can distinguish between acceleration and gravity.
What is the General Theory of Relativity?
100

A region in spacetime from which not even light can escape.

What is a black hole?

100

A man falling from a roof.

What is Albert Einstein's Happiest Thought?

200

The theory that the laws of mechanics are the same in steadily moving reference frames as they are in resting reference frames.

What is Galilean Relativity?

200

Surprise Spongebob Trivia!!!

This is Spongebob's name in Spanish.

What is Bob Esponja?

200
A phenomenon involving the Sun was used to confirm the theory of general relativity.
What is gravitational lensing, or the precession of the orbit of Mercury?
200

This is the natural event that creates a black hole.

What is the collapse of the core of a massive star?

200

This is the speed needed to leave Earth and not fall back onto its surface.

What is escape velocity?

300

This is the speed of a ball relative to the ground if it is thrown towards the left while riding a skateboard at 3 m/s to the right. The speed of the ball relative to the skateboard is 2.5 m/s.

What is 0.5 m/s?

300

All speeds are relative, except for this.

What is the speed of light?

300

These are the four dimensions of spacetime.

What is (x,y,z,t)?

300

Your time slows down, you can't escape, you become like a long piece of spaghetti as you are extruded through the extremely warped fabric of spacetime, your light becomes redshifted and dim from the point of view of an outside observer.

What are things that happen as you fall into a black hole?

300

Fettucini, rotini, manicotti, ziti, are types of pasta. This is the italian-cuisine-inspired name of the phenomenon characterized by extreme deformation due to tidal forces near the singularity.

What is spaghettification?

400

This is the speed of a ball relative to the ground if it is thrown towards the right while riding a skateboard at 3 m/s to the right. The speed of the ball relative to the skateboard is 2.5 m/s.

What is 5.5 m/s?

400

Your friends watch measures a time interval of 8.0 years as she travels at a speed of 0.80c relative to you. This is the time that has elapsed on Earth according to your watch.

What is 13 years?

400
Einsteins would say this property of spacetime is responsible for Newton's gravitational force.
What is curvature?
400

This is the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole with the mass of a sloth (M = 8 kg).

What is 1 x 10^ -26 m?

400
A difference in the time measured by two observers traveling at different speeds relative to each other.
What is time dilation?
500

This is the approximate speed, in km/hr, of our planet relative to the center of our galaxy assuming that the distance to the center of the galaxy is about 2.5 x 10^17 km and it takes about 230 million years to complete one orbit around the galaxy.

What is 780,000 km/hr?

500

Represented by the Latin letter c, this is the speed limit of the universe written out as a number.

What is 300,000,000 m/s

500

A surface where the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

What is a flat surface?

500

This is the escape velocity at the event horizon.

What is the speed of light?

500

A difference in distances measured by observers moving at different speeds relative to each other.

What is length contraction?

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