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Infinite Bounce 1
18 Questions
10 Points

1. The cock-eyed squid, Histioteuthis sp., has one dorsal eye
(on top) and one ventral (below). The larger, dorsal eye is
used to detect the silhouettes of prey/predators, as they
move across sunlight filtering in from above. What purpose
does the smaller eye serve ?
What purpose does the smaller eye serve ?

It looks out for Bioluminescent creatures.

2.
• A recent Nature news article reported that genetic
links have been found to distinguish those people who
like and those who dislike(tastes soapy to them) this
notoriously divisive herb, known by different names on
either side of the Atlantic.
• A genetic survey of nearly 30,000 has identified two
genetic variants linked to perception of
_____________, the most common of which is in a
gene involved in sensing smells.
• One of those genes, OR6A2, encodes a receptor that is
highly sensitive to aldehyde chemicals, which
contribute to the flavour of ________. Which herb ?

3. Fill in blank
• The Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit (or
TOV limit) is an upper bound to the mass for
formation of __________ stars.
• When a star exceeds the TOV mass limit it
collapses to form black hole. TOV limit is set
at approximately 10 solar masses.

4. A-C please
• A was a French surgeon and biologist who was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular
suturing techniques. He invented the first B
with C opening the way to organ
transplantation. C was awarded the medal of
honor by US for a certain historic feat
accomplished in the year of 1927 .C later
became a prolific prize-winning author,
international explorer, inventor, and
environmentalist.

• A- Alexis Carrel
• B- Perfusion pump
(helps organs survive
outside body)
• C- Charles Lindberg

5.
• Shocked quartz is a form of quartz that has a
microscopic structure that is different from
normal quartz. Under intense pressure (but
limited temperature), the crystalline structure of
quartz will be deformed along planes inside the
crystal. These planes, which show up as lines
under a microscope, are called planar
deformation features (PDFs), or shock lamellae.
• Shocked quartz is found worldwide, in a thin
layer(strata). What is it called ?

Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary/K-T
Boundary
• The boundary is associated with
the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction
event(because of meteor collision), a mass
extinction, which is considered to be the
demise of the non-avian dinosaurs.

6.This Experiment-in-Progress is
an example of which emerging
field of Biology ? Use of Light to
trigger pathways, very often in
the brain cells of animals, and
hopefully soon, humans.

Optogenetics
Conversely, the triggering of genes can be
signalled as impulses of light.
For example, an amputee’s ‘thought’ of
moving a limb could be conveyed to an
electro-mechanical prosthesis.

6.FITB
• A _______ ring is a specialized liquid crystal
thermometer, wearable on the finger. The ring is
typically ornamented with a faux gemstone
(usually made of quartz or glass) which is either a
clear capsule filled with thermochromic liquid
crystal, or has a thin sheet of liquid crystal sealed
underneath. Changes in body temperature of the
wearer cause the crystal to reflect different
wavelengths of light which changes the color of
the stone.

7. Sancho: “..what I beg of your worship is to dress your
wound, for a great deal of blood flows from that ear, and I
have here some lint and a little white ointment in the
alforjas."
"All that might be well dispensed with," said Don Quixote,
"if I had remembered to make a vial of the ______ of
Fierabras, for time and medicine are saved by one single
drop."
______ was the aspirin of the renaissance pharmacy.
The ______ tree remains popular as a Christmas tree.

The Balsam tree, Abies balsamea
[Fierabras (“Formidable Arm”) was a mythical knight.]

8.
• This hypothetical particle is a possible candidate
for dark energy and dark matter, and may
contribute to cosmic inflation. In the ________
dark-energy model, the observed acceleration of
the universe is caused by a light, spin-zero
particle that evades experiments. This evasion is
due to the fact that the properties of the
hypothetical _________ particle---namely its
mass---varies with the environment, hence its
moniker.

Ulam-Teller Configuration(Hydrogen Bomb), Ulam
Spiral, Monte-Carlo Method. All proposed by Stanislaw
Ulam

10.
• A Million ___________ Digits with 100,000 Normal
Deviates is a 1955 book by the RAND Corporation. The
book, consisting primarily of a ________ number table,
was an important 20th century work in the field
of statistics and ________ numbers. It was produced
starting in 1947 by an electronic simulation of
a roulette wheel attached to a computer, the results of
which were then carefully filtered and tested before
being used to generate the table. The main use of the
tables was in statistics and the design of scientific
experiments.

11.
• A X-Y is a particle that is its own antiparticle.
The term is sometimes used in opposition to
Dirac-Y, which describes particles that differ from
their antiparticles. The concept goes back to X's
1937 suggestion that neutral spin-1/2 particles
can be described by a real wave equation (the X
equation), and would therefore be identical to
their antiparticle (since the wave function of
particle and antiparticle are related by complex
conjugation).

12. Identify this Nobel Laureate

George Smoot(Nobel prize for work on
cosmic microwave background)

13. What word connects these
pictures ?

Dymaxion
• It is a portmanteau of the words dynamic,
maximum, and tension.

14.
• X is a mechanism through which atoms can be
cooled and trapped using laser beams. It
comes about as a result of a polarization
gradient created by two counter-propagating
laser beams with orthogonal polarization.

Atoms moving through the potential landscape created by the standing wave (created by
the interference of the two counter-propagating beams) lose kinetic energy as they move
to a potential maximum, at which point optical pumping moves them to a lower-energy
state, thus losing the potential energy they had.

• X (from German for “braking radiation” ) is
electromagnetic radiation produced by the
deceleration of a charged particle when
deflected by another charged particle,
typically an electron by an atomic nucleus.
The moving particle loses kinetic energy,
which is converted into a photon because
energy is conserved.

16.
According to the ancient Indian text of Amarakosa what are the
following ?
• Urvara
• Usara
• Maru
• Aprahta
• Sadvala
• Pankila
• Jalaprayamanupa
• Kaccha
• Sarkaravati
• Nadimatrka
• Devamatrka

17. Connect this statement to the
picture in the next slide…
According to a certain Chayes-X-Winn theorem:
“For a certain simplified model for
magnetism, the Curie temperature is equal to the
critical temperature below which percolation can
occur; this means that even when the bar is
unmagnetised, enough of the iron atoms in the
bar spin in the same direction that they can
create a connected path from one end of the bar
to another.”

18. Id the pictures and connect them
to the text….

“Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand
before you now because I never
stopped dawdling like an eight-
year-old on a spring morning on
his way to school. Anything can
make me stop and look and
wonder, and sometimes learn. I
am a very happy man. Thank
you.” Nobel acceptance speech
by a fictional character who
discovered “ice-nine”

Connect : Irving Langmuir
• Adsorption Isotherm
• Langmuir Circulation
• Langmuir Probe(to measure various properties
of plasma gases).
• Dr. Felix Hoenickker of Cat’s Cradle (Inspired
by Irving Langmuir)

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