Famous Minds
He is mentioned in the hit song "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
Who is Galileo Galilei?
A force on an object is equal to the object's mass multiplied by its acceleration.
What is Newton's 2nd Law of Motion?
This substance is the only known non-metallic to expand when frozen.
What is water?
1300 Earth's could fit inside this planet.
What is Jupiter?
The theory that our universe began as a volume smaller than an atom, and expanded to what it is now.
What is the Big Bang?
His four equations describe all of electrodynamics.
Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
These three laws describe how our planets orbit the Sun.
What are Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion?
A substance that conducts electricity with zero resistance below a critical temperature.
What is a superconductor?
The Black Hole at the center of our galaxy.
What is Sagittarius A*?
An example of this theory is the double pendulum.
What is Chaos Theory?
The author of "A Brief History of Time" and has a certain cosmic radiation named after him.
Who is Stephan Hawking?
This equation is used to describe the wave function of a sub-atomic particle.
What is the Schrödinger Equation?
The change in the frequency of a wave due to the relative velocity of the observer to the sound source. (Think of a passing ambulance).
What is the Doppler Effect?
A luminous Black Hole.
What is a Quasar?
He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"
Who is Albert Einstein?
The statement that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the 1st Law of Thermodynamics?
The fundamental force of nature that cannot be explained at the quantum level.
What is Gravity?
The radius at which an object becomes a black hole.
What is the Schwarzchild Radius?
The hypothetical substance that does not interact with light or the electromagnetic field.
What is Dark Matter?
The first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, as well as the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
The fourth, fifth, and sixth time derivatives of position.
What is snap, crackle, and pop?
The only known isotope that can become a superfluid (a fluid with zero viscosity).
What is Helium-4?
The year that Pluto was not a planet anymore :(
When was 2006?
The idea that opposes the "collapse of the wave function."
What is the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?