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Chandra's Previous Numbers Game Results - 2003Question 5: Recent scientific studies have measured the geometry of a pancake, Kansas, and the universe. The results, estimated to be accurate to within about 2 percent, are given below. Mathematically, 1.00 represents perfect flatness, or no curvature. Which number describes the shape of the universe? (November 24, 2003 - January 2, 2004)Question 4: The Virgo galaxy cluster is about 50 million light years from Earth. (One light year = the distance that light travels in a year.) The Sun is 8 light minutes from Earth. How many light seconds away is the Moon? (October 6 - November 24, 2003) Question 3: The lowest pressure ever observed in a laboratory on Earth is about one quadrillionth of atmospheric pressure, or about one femto-bar. How does this compare to the pressure in the hot gas in the Perseus cluster? (September 9 - October 6, 2003) Question 2: A refrigerator door magnet has a magnetic field of about 100 gauss. This is comparable to the magnetic field strength of which one of the following objects? (August 13 - September 9, 2003) Question 1: Lightning strikes take one hundredth of a second. This time is closest to the time period of: (July 21 - August 13, 2003) Chandra's Previous Poll Results - Name the AuthorQuestion 80: Who said: "The center is everywhere." (July 8 - 21, 2003)Question 79: Who said: "Let us not unlearn what we have already learned." (June 18 - July 8, 2003) Question 78: Who said: "This is a catastrophic universe; . . . with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes." (May 30 - June 18, 2003) Question 77: Who said: "Our emergence and survival depend on very special tuning of the cosmos - a cosmos that may be even vaster than the universe that we can actually see." (May 15 - 30, 2003) Question 76: Who said: "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge." (April 28 - May 15, 2003) Question 75: Who said: "Physicists must from now on, when pondering the secrets of the Cosmos, factor in not only energy and matter and time, but something very new and beautiful, which is human awareness." (April 11 - 28, 2003) Question 74: Who said: "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." (March 21 - April 11, 2003) Question 73: Who said: "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world." (February 27 - March 21, 2003) Question 72: Who said: "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." (February 10 - 27, 2003) Question 71: Who said: "There is nothing like astronomy to pull the stuff out of man, . . . Let him count the star swirls." (January 27 - February 10, 2003) Question 70: Who said: "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (January 13 - 27, 2003) |
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