Physics History
This American filed a whopping 1093 patents before he died in 1931, and is credited for the invention of the first talking dolls, among other things.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This type of radiation was the reason for Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk. In real life, they interact with matter through ionization, which can cause the disruption of atoms and molecules.
What are Gamma Rays?
This is the name for the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of an object due to a black hole.
What is spaghettification?
What Country is Dr. E From
Italy
This constant explains the weakest of the fundamental fores
Gravitational Constant
As the "warden of the royal mint", this famous physicist brought about the prosecution of multiple counterfeiters, leading them to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
Who is Issac Newton?
This famous actor won his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer (2023)
Robert Downey Jr.
Name any one of the parts of the light spectrum that are not visible to the human naked eye.
What is (infared, uv, x-ray, gamma, microwave, radio)?
What force is exerted by a surface on an object in contact with it, acting perpendicular to the surface
The Normal Force
In the study of electromagnetism, k is used to calculate the electric force between two charged points. What is the common name for this constant?
Coulomb's Constant
Throughout the 1920s, multiple girls' bodies were reported to be "glowing in their coffins" due to their continued exposure to this element.
What is radium?
In Star Trek, the "Heisenberg Compensators" are a fictional component of the transporter. Which real-world principle of quantum mechanics are they designed to bypass so a person’s atoms can be mapped?
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Mars
What is the most used electronic component? (excluding wires)
The resistor
Planck's Constant
This was the year when Einstein had his Annus Mirabilis or Miracle Year and published 4 groundbreaking papers
1905
What Physics Sci-Fi Concept is the main plot device in the Movie Everywhere Everything All at Once
The Multiverse
The outermost layer of the sun, which is only visible during total solar eclipses, when the moon blocks the sun's bright disk, revealing a pearly white halo.
What is the Corona?
What is the unit of sound intensity
decibels
What is the constant which explains heat radiated by objects.
The Stefan-Boltzmann constant
The Large Hadron Collider is located in these two countries.
What are France and Switzerland?
In Star Wars, we famously hear TIE Fighters screaming and X-Wings exploding. Why is this physically impossible in real space?
Because space is a vacuum
What is the Milky Way's nearest Neighbor.
What is Andromeda?
What is the 400th derivative of Sin(x)
Sin(x)
In the world of particle physics, what is the name of the constant (G) that gives the coupling strength for the "weak" nuclear force, responsible for radioactive decay?
The Fermi Constant.