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Important Names
Black Hole of Trivia
General Relativity
Kepler to Newton
Big Bang
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In 1915, this German scientist published a paper that changed the fundamental physics that we had been using since the 18th century.
Who is Albert Einstein.
100
The edge of the black hole where the escape velocity reaches or exceeds the speed of light.
What is the event horizon.
100
All planets orbit in an ellipse.
What is Kepler's 1st Law.
100
The approximate age of the universe.
What is 13.8 billion years.
200
Earliest time that we can rewind physics to.
What is 10^-43
300
The distance from the center of the black hole to the event horizon.
What is Schwartzchild Radius.
300
In August 2017, the LIGO detected one of these that had previously only been theorized by Albert Einstein in the early 20th century.
What is a gravitational wave.
300
One of the major evidences for the Big Bang Theory that was accidentally discovered in 1964 and confirmed in the early 1990's.
What is the Cosmic Microwave Background.
400
This mathematician derived the expanding-universe solution to general relativity field equations in 1922.
Who is Alexander Friedman.
400
According to General Relativity, as you accelerate time does this.
What is slow down.
500
This Catholic priest proposed an expanding model for the universe to explain the observed redshifts of spiral nebulae, and calculated the Hubble law.
Who is Georges Lemaître.
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Make your wager.
"Eureka: A Prose Poem" written in 1848 by this poet included a cosmological theory that presaged the Big Bang Theory by 80 years.