After the Test...
Drake Question
Use the following article to answer the questions below on the Drake Equation and Exoplanets:
a) PLEASE WRITE THE QUESTION
b) Answer each question in complete sentences.
ARTICLE: Estimating The Odds Of Finding E.T.
Drake Question
Use the following article to answer the questions below on the Drake Equation and Exoplanets:
a) PLEASE WRITE THE QUESTION
b) Answer each question in complete sentences.
ARTICLE: Estimating The Odds Of Finding E.T.
- As of March 2014, how many exoplanets have been confirmed according to this article?
- Create a two-column table that identifies each "variable" in the Drake Equation and explain each.
- What does the acronym SETI represent and what is their mission?
- Explain what the Drake Equation proposes to do?
- When was the first exoplanet discovered? What was the name of this planet?
- Where do astronomers believe that they can find life in our solar system?
- What is the observatory in Arecibo doing to aid in the search for exoplanets?
- Which orbiting device is responsible for discovering most new exoplanets?
The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) from 1998 to 2008
- the aim of allowing physicists to test the predictions of different theories of particle physics and high-energy physics,
- prove or disprove the existence of the theorized Higgs boson.
- It lies in a tunnel 17 mile in circumference, as deep as 574 ft beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.
- LHC - the aim of the exercise: To smash protons moving at 99.999999% of the speed of light into each other recreate conditions a fraction of a second after the big bang.
The LHC is composed of 4 main scientific stations:
1. ALICE
2. ATLAS
3. CMS
4. LHCb
Temperatures generated at the Large Hadron Collider in the experiments can be compared to the vacuum of space.
Colliding protons generate temperatures at the LHC one billion times hotter than the center of the sun.
Why do we have mass? One possibility sought after in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider is Higg's Boson.
The matter we know is 5% of the universe, the rest is dark matter.
The Large Hadron Collider accelerates protons to 99% of the speed of light.
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN could be the most ambitious scientific undertaking ever. The results of LHC experiments will probably change our fundamental knowledge of the universe.
CERN is the world's largest laboratory dedicated to the pursuit of fundamental science.