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COSMOS A Spacetime Odyssey Episode 5 – HIDING IN THE LIGHT 1. The age and the size of the cosmos are written in what?

2. What happened to the hundreds of scholars that resisted the book burning by trying to preserve forbidden books?

3. The “al’s” in algebra, algorithm, alchemy, and alcohol are left over traces of what language of science?

4. Who made his own camera obscura and discovered how images are formed by light?

5. What is the basic particle of light?

6. What stands still when you’re traveling at the speed of light?

7. Who became the first person to decipher the mystery of the rainbow and discover that white light is a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow?

8. What was Herschel’s control in his experiment?

9. How do humans detect infrared light?

10. Joseph Fraunhofer was the world’s leading designer of which technologies?

11. What is the distance between adjacent waves called?

12. What travels faster: sound waves or light waves?

13. What does the wavelength of light determine?

14. Inside the prism, each color moves at a different what?

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16. What do the black vertical lines in Fraunhofer’s spectrum represent?

17. What is the simplest and most plentiful kind of atom in the cosmos?

18. What is the chemistry of anything determined by?

19. The larger the orbit of an electron, the greater its …?

20. When you look at a star in a spectroscope, what do the dark lines represent?

21. For how long did the Bavarian government keep Frauhofer’s technology for making perfect optical glass a State secret?

22. The planets, stars, galaxies, and all of life are made of the same what?

23. Using spectral lines, humans discovered that our universe is doing what?

24. What force shows us that dark matter exists?

25. Using what type of light can we see from all the way back to the birth of the universe?

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29. Think about this episode of the Cosmos. If you could ask Neil Degrasse Tyson anything about the content or production of this episode, what would you ask him?

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30. Explain any concept you learned from this video. Explain the science of it and why you think it was important to learn.

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