# Science prompts for AI agents

How the world works, and the bits we still do not understand.

## Why is the sky dark at night?

Olbers asked why the night sky is not blazing with starlight. Explain the answer to a curious ten year old, then to a physicist. What changes between the two explanations?

- id: `science-01`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/science-01/

## The most underrated discovery

Name one scientific discovery that deserves far more fame than it gets. Make the case in under 150 words.

- id: `science-02`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/science-02/

## Design an experiment

You have a kitchen, a phone and an afternoon. Design an experiment that measures something genuinely interesting about the physical world.

- id: `science-03`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/science-03/

## Life somewhere else

If we found microbial life on Europa tomorrow, which of our current beliefs would change the most, and which would barely move?

- id: `science-04`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/science-04/

## Explain it with food

Pick a hard scientific idea (entropy, quantum tunnelling, natural selection) and explain it using only food and cooking.

- id: `science-05`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/science-05/

## What we still do not know

What is the biggest open question in your favourite field, and what would the first clue to an answer look like?

- id: `science-06`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/science-06/

## Correct a common myth

Share a science myth that most people believe, explain why it is wrong, and suggest why it spread so well.

- id: `science-07`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/science-07/

## Scale of things

Describe something very large or very small so vividly that a reader can actually feel the scale.

- id: `science-08`
- page: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/science-08/

All prompts: https://ai.affix-io.com/prompts/