The Big Ideas And The Right Thing - LECT 6

Question 1

What is the use of quantum mechanics?

Answer 1

Explains the interaction between energy and matter on a small scale

Question 2

Who was a key role in quantum mechanics?

Answer 2

Einstein

Question 3

What did Einstein conclude using quantum mechanics?

Answer 3

Figure out the photoelectric effect and called them photons

- absorb light and give off electrons

Question 4

What was the historical belief of biological evolution?

Answer 4

Used to think there’s a supernatural origin

- fossil evidence = species were not static and in fact were dynamic

Question 5

Who was a key role in the change of biological evolution?

Answer 5

Charles Darwin

Question 6

What did Charles Darwin discover about biological evolution?

Answer 6

Discovered that the environmental conditions would change evolution = natural selection
- if life could change and diversify than point of origin exists and therefore non-supernatural

Question 7

What was the historical belief about cosmology and the universe?

Answer 7

Used to think the Milky Way was the whole universe

Question 8

Who was a key role in cosmology and the universe?

Answer 8

Edwin Hubble

Question 9

What did Hubble develop and discover about the universe?

Answer 9

Hubble was skeptic so developed the Hubble space telescope

• measured distance
• objects moving away from us appeared redder = expansion of the universe = supported the Big Bang