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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Isaac Newton.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Light moves along what sort of lines?
(a) Tilted.
(b) Wavy.
(c) Curved.
(d) Straight.

2. Why did the universe not collapse back on itself shortly after the big bang?
(a) We don't know.
(b) There was too much acceleration.
(c) Gravity interfered.
(d) Particles became real and less dense.

3. More than his support for Copernicus, what of Galileo's was considered the genesis of modern physics?
(a) His second major book.
(b) His work on proving Copernicanism.
(c) His first major book.
(d) His development of mathematical formulas.

4. What is the fate of black holes according to Hawking's model of the universe?
(a) They will start their own universes.
(b) They will evaporate.
(c) They will explode.
(d) They will collapse.

5. What types of numbers can be used to run time backwards?
(a) Imaginary numbers.
(b) Negative numbers.
(c) Complex numbers.
(d) Real numbers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the colors of quarks?

2. There are at least how many different arrows of time?

3. Who wrote the introduction?

4. The universe has how many dimensions?

5. The laws of science that govern the behavior of matter under all normal situations say that under the combination of the two operations C and P, what happens?

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