Hi folks
Help me with answers to the following questions
Category: Science
1.What work published in the 19th century convinced geologists that the Earth was at least several hundred million years old?
2.What are the 2 oldest surviving organisms on earth?
3.What is the most massive satellite galaxy of the Milky Way?
4.WIMPs and MACHOs are used to theorize about what part of the Galaxy?
5.According to the Big Bang theory, what was the first step in the creation of elements in the early universe?
6.In Feynman's "theory of sum over histories", a particle in space-time can travel how many paths?
7.What is the total energy of the universe?
8.The meaning of what part of the body is derived from the Greek , meaning "air duct"?
9.What is the name of the master regulatory genes that lay out the general geographic plan of the human body?
Hint given: Did you say lox?
10.What writer proclaims that evolution is an algorithmic process built by cranes and not by skyhooks?
11.In astronomy, taken collectively, what do the following measure: U,V, & W?
12.In what part of the Galaxy will you find Kapteyn's Star?
13.Planetary nebulae eject what 2 heavy elements into the Galaxy?
14.What Satellite Galaxy is moving fastest toward the Galactic center?
15.Who discovered that the Milky Way rotates?
16.In cubic centimeters, what is the approximate volume of an adult brain?
17.In aeronautics, what does L/D stand for?
18.B2FH refers to what 4 authors?
19.What are "IRS7" and "IRS16"?
20.What does the cosmological constant allow space to do?
Thanks very much
Arsen

2.What are the 2 oldest surviving organisms on earth?

good luck on this one, it's fertile ground for conjecture, as to what is an organism and as to the measurement of elapsed time; possible candidates:
-o- a stand of hundreds of huon pine trees on Mt. Read in Tasmania covering about 2 1/2 acres which are probably part the one tree since all these 'trees' appear to have identical DNA, are about 10,000 or 10,500 years according to different sources
-o- bristlecone pines in the Sierra Nevada mountains some of which are about 4,600 or 7,000 years old acording to diffeent sources
< some sources argue that the Stromatilites (cyanobacteria) may be the oldest living species at billions of years old >

18. B2FH refers to what 4 authors?

Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler and Hoyle - they wrote a paper in Reviews of Modern Physics in 1957 on the formation of nuclei in stars

19. What are "IRS7" and "IRS16"?

looks like they're infra-red sources in the centre of our galaxy, near a possible black hole which is named Sgr A* http://spacescience.nasa.gov/abstracts/LTSA_91_Abstracts.txt
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/www_ir/GC/papers/texas_full.html

[This message has been edited by gtho4 (edited 07-19-2000).]

GT is right for #19...it stands for galactic Infra Red Source.

#2- I found this website http://www.firstscience.com/site/articles/davies.asp

Check it out. Seems like one of the oldest surviving organisms on earth are called superbugs.

#3- Large Magellanic Cloud (at a diameter of 20,000)

#4- WIMPs: Weakly Interacting Massive
Particle

MACHOs: Massive Compact Halo Object

Both of these are used to theorize about the dark matter of the Galaxy.

#5- http://ssscott.tripod.com/BigBang.html

#8- I believe the answer is ventricle but I´m not 100% sure.

#12- Kapteyn´s Star seems to be found in the Kapteyn´s Station System, found within the Babylon 5 Universe. The star is about 12.63 lightyears from the Sun.

#16- Between 1350 to 1400 cc, depending on sex and body size.

#17- I think L/D stands for Landing Domain in Aeronautics...sounds about right.

#1. Darwin's 'Origin of Species' was the final convincing publication on that.