special relativity - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 2: Bonus 9

This theory addresses a thought experiment in which two observers both see a lighting strike, one on the train and the other standing beside the tracks. For 10 points each:

[10e] One of the 1905 annus mirabilis papers presents what theory that postulates the speed of light in a vacuum is constant?

ANSWER: special relativity [or SR or the special theory of relativity; prompt on relativity]

[10m] In special relativity, events that are simultaneous with an observer’s present occupy a hyperplane that is hyperbolic-orthogonal to this construct. This is the path that the observer takes through spacetime.

ANSWER: the observer’s worldline

[10h] Since events in this region of spacetime are causally disconnected from an observer’s present, they can appear simultaneous with it in other reference frames. This term refers to the area outside the observer’s light cone.

ANSWER: absolute elsewhere

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Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	15.58	98%	54%	5%

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Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	Execute Order 6 7	10	0	0	10	E
1000000 Delinquents	Indiana	10	0	0	10	E
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	C R A B S	10	10	0	20	EM
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	UBC A	10	0	0	10	E
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	10	0	20	EM
BHSU	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	10	0	0	10	E
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	10	10	0	20	EM
Chicago !A	Invective Against Swans	10	10	0	20	EM
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Team 7	10	10	0	20	EM
Copán Seethe	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	10	0	0	10	E
David Foster Gromit	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	10	0	0	10	E
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Tennessee A	10	0	0	10	E
Guelph Cloze	Licence to C. Wright Mill	10	0	0	10	E
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	Dielectrical Materialism	10	0	0	10	E
Habitat 67	Shipping Down from Ballston	10	10	0	20	EM
I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	You Don't Have the Cards	10	10	0	20	EM
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	10	10	10	30	EMH
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	10	10	0	20	EM
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	10	0	10	20	EH
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	10	0	0	10	E
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	10	10	10	30	EMH
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	10	10	0	20	EM
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	10	0	10	20	EH
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	10	0	0	10	E
JHU	Catholic University A	10	10	10	30	EMH
Lex	W&L+Friend	10	10	0	20	EM
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	UNC Charity	10	10	0	20	EM
Maybe Ever	St. Marx	10	10	0	20	EM
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	Contessa Dora	10	0	0	10	E
NYU A	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	10	0	0	10	E
NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	10	0	0	10	E
No Country for Old Quizzers	Dour Straits	10	10	0	20	EM
Noah Sheidlower	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	10	10	0	20	EM
Northwestern	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	10	0	0	10	E
Not Old! (Old)	Team 8	10	0	0	10	E
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	10	10	0	20	EM
Rosslyn Academic Team	Mike and Psmith	0	0	0	0
Say It Ain't Zhou	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	10	10	0	20	EM
Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20	EM
Stanford B	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20	EM
The Fire Neg Time	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	10	0	0	10	E
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	Vacuous Tortoise	10	10	0	20	EM
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	UBC B	10	0	0	10	E
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	[Redacted]	10	10	0	20	EM
The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	10	0	0	10	E
Untitled Keyal Team	The "C" Team	10	10	0	20	EM
WashU	four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	10	10	0	20	EM
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	0	0	10	E
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Penn State	10	10	0	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%