Redemption
These planets are visible to the naked eye.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
Professor Phil Pincus calls Professor Zvonimir Dogic this nickname.
What is "Z-Dog"?
This physicist described entanglement as "spooky action at a distance".
Who is Albert Einstein?
This is the name of the first animal to go to space, who died during the flight but remained in orbit for five months before returning to Earth.
Who is Laika?
This astronomer discovered that bound planets moved in elliptical orbits.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
This small Swedish village has accounted for the discovery of eight elements.
What is Ytterby?
This is the name for the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of an object due to a black hole.
What is spaghettification?
This physicist, who created the first nuclear reactor, also reasoned that we should be contacted by aliens.
Who is Enrico Fermi?
Pluto is not a planet because of this property.
What is, "Pluto's orbit has other large bodies in it"?
This conic section describes the shape of the orbit of a satellite that experiences a flyby encounter with a planet.
what is a hyperbola?
This martian rover operated for 15 years, finally stopping transmission in 2018 after a dust storm.
What is the Opportunity?
This is the imperial unit for mass.
What is a slug?
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?
This physicist wrote a famous letter to his dead wife, including the paragraph,
"But now I know my darling wife that it is right to do what I have delayed in doing, and that I have done so much in the past. I want to tell you I love you. I want to love you. I always will love you. "
Who is Richard Feynman?
The standard model has at least this many independent variables. (Highest without going over wins)
What is 18?
This physicist, who had only very basic formal education, was pivotal in the discovery of diamagnetism, electromagnetic induction, and electrolysis.
Who is Michael Faraday?
This force allows geckos to stick to surfaces via the hairs on their feet.
What are Van der Waals forces?
As the "warden of the royal mint", this famous physicists brought about the prosecution of multiple counterfeiters, leading them to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This is the number of sides of the smallest regular polygon that CAN'T be found tiling a crystal.
What is five?
There are this many fundamental particles in the standard model.
What is 17? (Maybe 25 if you count gluons as distinct)