Ladies and Gentlemen,
The winner of today’s We Need to Talk about Kelvin quiz is Lane. Congratulations!!!! Your signed book will be winging its way through the cosmos very soon.
And here are the answers in bold:
1. The scientists who won the Nobel prize for detecting the faint “afterglow” of the big bang thought they had found:
a) The glow of pigeon droppings
b) The glow of street lights
c) The glow of glow worms
2. Einstein’s mathematics professor called him a:
a) Lazy possum
b) Lazy dingo
c) Lazy dog
3. “J. J.” Thomson got the Nobel Prize for showing the electron was a particle and his son got it for showing:
a) It carried a negative charge
b) It weighed about 1/2000 that of a hydrogen atom
c) It wasn’t a particle
4. The Greek philosopher Anaxagoras thought the sun was “a little bit bigger than”:
a) The Parthenon
b) Athens
c) Greece
5. According to Einstein, time flows more slowly:
a) In the company of close relatives
b) On the ground floor of a building rather than on the top floor
c) Watching Countdown
Thanks everyone!
Congratulations to the lovely Lane for winning.
What fun this must have been. I’m not following this blog. Congrats to Lane!
Drat! My entry must’ve got lost in the post…
What interesting questions and answers… Well done to Lane. This book would look good in Son’s stocking. Thanks Sue.
Congrats Lane! I’ll expect a post or two where you wow us with your newfound knowledge. x
Thanks Sue (and Marcus). I thrilled:-)
And DJ – I’m just looking forward to adding to my non-existent knowledge:-)
Congratulations to Lane!
Best wishes,
Marcus
PS
Apologies for delay in leaving any comments. Couldn’t figure out how to leave one!
Dear JJ Beattie,
Gald you though the questions were interesting!
Best wishes,
Marcus
Dear Lane,
You’re very welcome. Hope you like the book. If not, it makes good kindling! Thanks also to Sue for hosting me!
Best wishes,
Marcus
Actually Einstein would probably have said both a) and b). He famously said “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.”
This was the abstract of a paper he allegedly published in a journal called Journal of Exothermic Science and Technology. This is usually portrayed as a genuine, if humorous, academic contribution, but the initials of the journal suggest that Einstein made the whole thing up.
BooHooo….so sad I missed all of this. Darn big storms and knocked down electricity poles……