Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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.