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100

What does the variable c represent?

What is the speed of light?

100

What famous scientist first discovered and wrote about time dilation?

Who is Albert Einstein?

100

On which planet was Albert Einstein born?

What is Earth?

200

What is the slowing down of time in one reference frame moving relative to an observer in another reference frame?

What is time dilation?

200

You pass Go.

Receive 200 points.

200

Which section of chapter 11 did I present on today?

What is 11.2?

300

What is the time interval measured by an observer at rest with respect to a clock?

What is proper time?

300

What year was the paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” written?

What is 1905?

300

What famous film depicts King Leonidas leading his army into battle against the 300 000 strong Persian army lead by King Xerxes?

What is 300?

400

You have been sent through a wormhole.

You travel back in time and lose the last amount of points you gained.

400

What two items did the Hafele-Keating experiment use?

What are clocks and planes?

400

Who is the lead male actor in the movie Interstellar?

Who is Matthew McConaughey?

500

What term means time that is not absolute, but changes relative to the observer?

What is relativistic time?

500

Without correction satellites would lose up to how many kilometers of accuracy every day due to time dilation?

What is 11 Kilometers?

500

How many observers participated in my first thought experiment?

What is two?

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