Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

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Which theory is the "most beautiful of theories"?

Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity

Who came up with the idea that the Earth is a stone that floats in space when trying to figure out how it's possible things revolve around us?

Aliximander

Which scientist made the idea where the earth is in the center

Aristotle

Who devised convincing arguments to support Earth being a sphere?

Aristotle

On the Heavens

Aristotles book describing this cosmos

who was "the prince of mathematicians?"

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Who is the author?

Carlo Rovelli

Who is the father of physics?

Isaac Newton

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity changed the law of universal gravity, originally created by who?

Issac Newton

Who is the father of physics?

Issac Newton

What german physicist calculated the electric field in equilibrium in a hot box?

Max Planck

A few years before the birth of Einstein, ______ and _____ added the electromagnetic field to Newton's cold world.

Michael Faraday and James Maxwell

Is it possible to predict where an electron will reappear?

No, we can only calculate the probability that it will pop up here or there.

Gravitational field

Not diffused through space, but is space itself

When was "The General Theory of Relativity" published?

November 1915

What is this equation called? Rab-1/2 R Gab=Tab

Riemann's Curvature

What does The General Theory of Relativity cover?

Space and time

How is Copernicus's model different?

The sun is in the middle (not the earth)

Who imagined electrons do not always exist?

Werner Heisenberg

aristotle

devised convincing scientific arguments to confirm the spherical nature of the earth and space

quantum leaps

electrins can only jump between one atomic orbit and another with determined energies

"quanta"

packets or lumps of energy

particles of light

photons

when was quantum mechanics born?

precisely in the year 1900

who realized that the Earth was a sphere

pythagoras or parmenides

what is the texture of the universe

splashed with galaxies and moved by waves.

what gave us a clearer picture of the space and other galaxy's than than the most powerful telescopes

the Hubble telescope

alberts extraordinary idea

the gravitational field is not diffused through space; the gravitational field is space itself

copernicus

understood and showed that Earth is not at the center

What is nebulae

A cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visable in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter

How long did it take for Einstein to come up with The General Theory of Relativity?

10 years

How old are the galaxies?

15 billion years

What scientist proved the sun was in the middle?

Copernicus

What is the shape of the universe is not flat but...

Curved

Who created the Hubble Telescope?

Edwin Hubble

what two scientist hesitated when introducing their idea?

Einstein and

special relativity

Einstein's first theory on relativity.


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