Physics
Biology
Earth Science
Questions for the Future
Ideas Debunked
100

A particle of light.

What is a Photon?

100

The powerhouse of the cell

What are Mitochondria?

100

A rock formed by heat and pressure and time.

What is a Metamorphic rock?

100

A modern technology that is changing the world of information technology, promising smarter searches, better predictions of the future and even the apocalypse.  

What is Artificial Intelligence?

100

The 9th planet in our solar system that, now reclassified as a dwarf planet.  

What is Pluto?

200

Issac Newton is said to have first coined this term when an apple fell on his head.

What is Gravity? Or What is Gravitation?  

200

The largest human organ.

What is the dermis? Or What is the skin?

200

Our planet ’s thin, 40-kilometer (25-mile) outermost shell of a terrestrial planet.

What is the Crust?

200

Boston Scientific and Tesla lead the way in creating this for homes and business. Critics say that this technology will destroy jobs and revolutionize how wars are fought.  

What is Modern Robotics?

200

This concept was replaced by Heliocentrism, the idea that the planets revolve around the Sun, after the Renaissance mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic cleric, Nicolaus Copernicus presented a mathematical model of a heliocentric system, leading to the Copernican Revolution.

What is Geocentrism? 


300

Although most science fiction movies make this seem possible, it is not. Known as the speed limit of the universe, the scientific abbreviation for this constant is c.  

What is the speed of light?

300

Turtles, toads, and tarantulas are all ectothermic animals, which is typically referred to by this more common term.

What is Cold Blooded?

300

Formed by water dripping water from the roofs of caves, these elongated forms of various mineral deposits usually the form of tubes or icicles.  

What are Stalactites and Stalagmites?

300

Facebook, Apple, Google, and others have all bet on this image technology as the being environment of tomorrow.  

What is Virtual Reality?

300

Recently the object of renewed interest due to conspiracy theorists, this model of the finally discarded after explores began to circumnavigate the globe.

What is flat earth?  

400

This is the term used to describe the bending of a light ray when it passes between materials of different densities.

What is Refraction?  

400

Thrombocytopenia, which may cause symptoms such as easy bruising or bleeding gums, is an abnormally low level of this specific component of blood.

What are Platelets?

400

A tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes, about 40,000 km (25,000 mi) long and up to about 500 km (310 mi) wide, which surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean.  

What is the Ring of Fire?

400

Elon musk of Tesla, Space X and X has indicated that this might be used to make Mars more habitable for humans.  

What is terraforming?

400

A precursor to modern chemistry, this debunked practice claimed to allow its practitioners to transmute substances like turning iron into gold or pine pitch into water. The ultimate goal of those who studied this practice was to create the philosopher's stone.  

What is Alchemy?  

500

In quantum mechanics, this is a thought experiment where a flask of poison, and a radioactive source connected to a Geiger counter and a cat are placed in a sealed box. The objects are in a state of superposition, unknowable until viewed.

What is Schrödinger's cat?

500

Often referred to as genetic memory, this study of heritable traits or how cells change in relationship to their environment is used as a primary tool in discovering how the role of environment can affect the genetic differences in identical twins.  

What is Epigenetics?  

500

Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, Louisville Ridge, Walvis Ridge, Kodiak–Bowie Seamount chain and the Cobb–Eickelberg Seamount chain are all examples of this with high seismic and volcanic activity.  

What are Geologic Hotspots?  

500

Physicist Freeman Dyson has this energy capture megastructure named after him. Scientists recently hypothesized that one has been discovered after observing strange luminance measurements around distant stars.

What is a Dyson Sphere?  

500

Albert Einstein famously said that “God does not play dice with the universe.” This was in response to the new discovery of quantum physics, allowing for a degree of randomness to pervade all physics henceforth and debunking this theory.

What is the Clockwork Universe?  

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