The Guardian: Guardian Weekly: Leisure: Notes & Queries

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  • Author(s): By:PAUL HALL, JOHN LYNG, ROGER MORRELL, JIM DEWAR, BE
  • Source:
    Guardian, The (London, England), May 5, 2006, 3pp
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    • Abstract:
      What scientific/mathematical concepts should anyone considering themselves well-educated be able to understand? Here is a partial list: From physics, that the universe is around 14bn years old, and came into existence in a singularity known as the Big Bang; that gravity forms stars and planets, and keeps the latter in orbit around the former; that stellar nucleosynthesis makes stars shine, as well as providing the atoms from which planets and people are made...