Fantasy
This religion revolted against the Catholic Church, and gave believers direct access to God.
What is Protestantism?
This fallacy targets the speaker rather than the content of the argument.
What is ad hominem?
This is the most unlikely color for the human eye to perceive in stars.
What is green?
This is the most energetic radiation on the electromagnetic spectrum.
What are Gamma rays?
Often mistaken as a measurement of time, Philip Plait calls this distance the "standard yardstick of astronomers."
What is a light-year?
He created a cult-following with his theories of a rogue Venus shaping the solar system.
Who is Velikovsky?
Ad hominem, post hoc, and non sequitur are all examples of THIS critical thinking guide, named after a funky lunch meat, by THIS famous cosmologist.
What is the Baloney Detection Kit by Carl Sagan?
This is at the center of our galaxy (not the Earth, as humans once thought).
What is a black hole?
This occurs when waves meet while one is at a trough and the other is cresting.
What is wave cancellation?
This invisible, attractive substance, believed to have formed the first seeds of structure in the universe, was measured using star speeds at the edges of galaxies, by Vera Rubin.
What is Dark Matter?
This fictional system on Star Trek system can change the gravitational field and act as a "cosmic shock absorber" during starship acceleration.
What are inertial dampers?
Referencing a favorite fruit, this fallacy is also described as observational selection, or “counting the hits and forgetting the misses.”
What is Cherry-picking?
This many Earths could fit inside the Sun.
What is over 1 million?
These are the quanta of the electromagnetic field.
What are photons?
This name is given to the unknown, repulsive process making the expansion of the universe accelerate.
What is Dark Energy?
This genre of speculative writing encourages hope for a better future, using identity, justice, and resistance as a way of "decolonizing the mind."
What is visionary fiction? (e.g. Octavia Butler's brood)
This rule “urges us when faced with two hypotheses that explain the data equally well to choose the simpler.”
What is Occam’s Razor?
Though he did not invent the telescope, this scientist used it to demonstrate that Earth is not at the center of our solar system.
Who was Galileo?
Photons have the ability to travel at this maximum speed because they do not have mass.
What is 300 million meters per second?
DAILY DOUBLE - how much do you want to wager?
The temporary creation of these particles causes both Hawking radiation and an outward pressure everywhere in the universe.
This dietary supplement marketer and “physician to the gods” claims that “mystical feelings should override scientific understanding, and that reality is an illusion that one can remake to suit oneself.”
Who is Deepak Chopra? (according to Fantasyland)
This requirement for a scientific hypothesis, also described as testability, does not mean that the hypothesis is false.
What is Falsifiability?
This type of neutron star is known for its immense magnetic field.
What is a Magnetar?
To someone falling into a black hole, this is how their own clock would appear to tick.
What is unchanged? (proper time)
This influences not only the way light moves, but the speed of time.
What is mass?