Review Questions
- (1.) How did Halley's Comet play a role in shaping the history of western civilization and the development of science?
- (2.) Although the apple played a role, what actually stoked Isaac Newton's interest and led him to develop calculus?
- (3.) How did Newton's Principia alter the course of human society in the centuries that followed its publication?
- (4.) What are Newton's Laws of Motions?
- (5.) Why was Michael Faraday important (the British scientist, not the character from Lost)?
- (6.) What breakthrough did James Clerk Maxwell make?
- (7.) What are the weak and strong nuclear forces and how were they discovered?
- (8.) What is the Standard Model, and what is it missing?
- (9.) How does the Large Hadron Collider work, and why was it constructed?
- (10.) Why is String Theory necessary? or Why is Einstein's mathematics incomplete?
- (11.) What are the higher-dimensional possibilities offered by a practically applied String Theory?
- (12.) Why would we want to leave our universe and how might we accomplish this feat?
- (13.) What's the difference between dark energy and dark matter? How much of our universe does each constitute, and how do we know they exist?
