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This is the room number for the place students go to; to study, relax, or have lunch.
What is CP 183?
This is the name of the planet near Gargantua in the movie "Interstellar".
What is Miller's Planet?
This is the person related to two important concepts: the theoretical smallest length and the constant associated with quantum effects (among other).
Who is Max Planck?
This person won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and again in Chemistry in 1911.
Who is Marie Curie?
This is the function Dr. Lei Guo asks you to graph if you haven't taken Methods.
What is sin(2x)?
In "The Martian", Mark is able to survive longer due to doing this.
What is making water and planting potatoes?
This is the law that determines the proportionality for a lot of important physical laws such as gravity.
What is the inverse square law?
This person formulated the theorem that connected symmetries and conservation laws.
Who is Emmy Noether?
This faculty member has been in FIU the longest, and really wants to "tell us why".
Who is Dr. James Webb?
In "Star Trek", warp drive would require faster-than-light travel, which most directly conflicts with this theory in its usual interpretation.
What is special relativity?
This experiment measured the elementary electric charge.
What is the Millikan Oil-drop experiment?
This is when and how the gluon was discovered.
When is 1979 and the TASSO experiment?
This is the professor that comes into campus on a bike and tells you "Okay." to... everything.
Who is Dr. Wim Cosyn?
These are the concepts that the Eridians did not know about in the movie "Project Hail Mary".
What is radiation and relativity?
This is the mathematical object that describes the deviation of curved spaced from traditional Euclidean geometry.
What is the Ricci tensor?
This person revolutionized nuclear physics by proving parity violation for beta decay in 1956.
Who is Madam Wu?
These are the people that won the graduate presentations competition.
Who are Alan, Thomas, and Ukesh?
This is the flow of time in "The Good Place".
What is a Jearimy Bearimy?
In group theory, this is the difference between Abelian and Non-Abelian groups.
What is commutation between group elements?
These are the women that helped calculate trajectories and ultimately send astronauts to space in the Apollo 11 mission.
Who are Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson?