I failed to answer General Relativity despite considering it as an answer. Clearly I don’t understand it, so time to try and break it down into some basic building blocks.
Questions
By what four-word term is Fermat’s Principle also known? It is used as a means of explaining the ordinary refraction of light.
PRINCIPLE OF LEAST TIME
Which Indian-American physicist, who never won the Nobel Prize, is considered to be the ‘Father of fibre optics’?
NARINDER KAPANY
With what stream of charged particles does the Earth’s magnetic field interact with when it extends out into space?
SOLAR WIND
The motion of what causes the electric currents that generate the Earth’s magnetic field?
CONVECTION CURRENTS
What is the natural process called where convection currents are caused by heat escaping from the core?
GEODYNAMO
What sense allows an organism to detect the Earth’s magnetic field? It is mainly used for orientation and navigation.
MAGNETORECEPTION
His potential for winning a Nobel Prize being cut short by his death at the Battle of Gallipoli, Henry Moseley is best known for his work on justifying what empirical and chemical concept through the physical Moseley law?
ATOMIC NUMBER
In the thought experiment known as the EPR paradox Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and what third figure argued that the description of physical reality provided by quantum mechanics was incomplete?
NATHAN ROSEN
The acronym SUVAT is related to equations of what?
MOTION
With a standing for acceleration and t for time, what does S stand for in the equations of motion acronym SUVAT?
DISPLACEMENT
With s standing for displacement, a for acceleration and t for time, what does U stand for in the equations of motion acronym SUVAT?
INITIAL VELOCITY
Having dual citizenship, which particularly well-known Odessa-born scientist was one of the two physicists who discussed the Urca process while visiting a casino in Rio?
GEORGE GAMOW
Who was the Brazilian physicist who discussed the Urca process with George Gamow while visiting a casino in Rio?
MÁRIO SCHENBERG
The general theory of relativity is also known as Einstein’s Theory of what, with the Pound-Rebka test being the last of the classical tests of general relativity to be verified during the 1960s?
GRAVITY
Albert Einstein’s two theories of relativity were proposed to account for limitations in the mechanics named for which scientist, introducing concepts like 4-dimensional spacetime?
ISAAC NEWTON
What did the Michelson-Morley experiment fail to prove the existence of, with Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity able to explain the lack of experimental evidence for its existence?
AETHER
In order to illustrate the concept of Special Relativity, Albert Einstein introduced a thought experiment that showed how two people at what two different locations could experience an event at different times despite seeming to be in the same place relative to it?
ON A TRAIN & AN EMBANKMENT
Known by a two-word term, what are used to preserve the Galilean frames of reference between two different sets of co-ordinates x,y,z and x’,y’,z’ while preserving the principle of relativity, with the related expressions making it clear that the speed of light can’t be exceeded by a material body?
LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS
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