Consider again the civilization described in the previous question. (They live on a planet orbiting 10 AU from a close binary st
ar system that consists of a 15 MSun red giant star and a 10 MSun black hole surrounded by an accretion disk.) Through a bizarre (and scientifically unexplainable) fluctuation in the space-time continuum, a copy of a book from that civilization arrives on your desk; it is entitled Iguoonos: How We Evolved. In the first chapter, you learn that these beings evolved from organisms that lived 5 billion years ago. Which of the following statements should you expect to find as you continue to read this book? A. Their immediate ancestors were chimpanzees.
B. As a result of traumatic experiences to their evolutionary ancestors, they dislike television.
C. They evolved on a different planet in a different star system, and moved to their current location.
D. They evolved from primitive wormlike creatures that had 13 legs, 4 eyes, and bald heads, thus explaining why such critters are now considered a spectacular delicacy.
E. They believe that the presence of two stars in their system was critical to their evolution.
The higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength. Because all light waves move through a vacuum at the same speed, the number of wave crests passing by a given point in one second depends on the wavelength. Speed shows how long it takes for wavelengths to travel.
