Cosmology
What is the Main Sequence?
These are the three principal deities of Hinduism, responsible for creation, preservation, and destruction.
What are Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva?
This is the year Texas A&M was founded.
What is 1876?
This film introduced the concept of "bullet time"
What is The Matrix?
This city was home to the Lyceum, the school founded by Aristotle
What is Athens?
This phenomenon describes how light from distant galaxies is stretched by the expansion of space, providing key evidence that the universe is expanding.
What is redshift?
This philosopher, in his work Summa Theologiae, formulates the “Five Ways,” a series of arguments for the existence of God based on motion, causation, contingency, degrees of perfection, and teleology.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
These are two of the new 7 wonders of the world (released in 2007).
This British band released "Ok Computer," often cited as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Who is Radiohead?
what philosopher said "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This early-universe radiation provides a "snapshot" of the universe about 380,000years after the Big Bang.
What is the cosmic microwave background?
This Jewish mystical tradition explores the nature of God through the sefirot, represented with "the Tree of life"
This movement emphasized reason, science, and skepticism of tradition in 18th-century Europe.
What is the Enlightenment?
In Minecraft, this item is dropped by the "Wither" upon defeat.
This philosopher holds that compassion is the sole genuine basis of morality, arising from the recognition that all individuals are manifestations of the same underlying "will."
Who is Arthur Schopenhauer?
This interpretation of quantum mechanics holds that physical systems do not have definite properties until measured, and that the wave function collapses upon observation.
This medieval Jewish philosopher and physician, author of Guide for the Perplexed, sought to reconcile Aristotle's philosophy with Jewish theology. Also wrote the complete, organized code of Jewish law (Halakha).
Who is Maimonides?
This conflict between Athens and Sparta weakened classical Greece.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
This director created the Dark Knight trilogy
Who is Christopher Nolan?
This philosophical school holds that the sage achieves apatheia--freedom from destructive passions--by assenting only to true impressions (kataleptic phantasiai) within a deterministic, rationally ordered cosmos.
What is Stoicism?
This unresolved problem in cosmology refers to the discrepancy between the value of the universe's expansion rate measured from the early universe and the value measured from nearby galaxies.
What is the Hubble tension?
This Hindu text contains a dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna on duty and righteousness.
What is the Bhagavad Gita?
What is the Zhou Dynasty
In Inception, these are the three "totems" used by the characters Dom Cobb, Artuhur, and Ariadne to discern if they are in reality or not.
What are the Spinning top, Loaded die, and Chess piece (bishop)?
This logical framework extends propositional logic by adding operators for necessity (◻) and possibility (◇). This allows analysis of arguments across possible worlds.
What is modal logic?