The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest For… Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Brian Greene
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest For… Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Brian Greene
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine: The Smoking Gun, Experimental Signatures.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which physicist is credited with discovering that light is composed of particles?
(a) Maxwell.
(b) Rutherford.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Planck.

2. Quantum physics began with the study of the energy inside a heated, closed container, such as an oven. The problem with theories at the time was that they predicted that _____.
(a) The oven can only store energy if it has no mass.
(b) The oven contains no energy.
(c) The oven can store more energy the smaller it is.
(d) The oven contains infinite energy.

3. The number of family groups corresponds to a feature of the Calabi-Yau shape. What is this feature?
(a) Its number of folds.
(b) Its degree of internal divisions.
(c) Its number of holes.
(d) Its number of extended dimensions.

4. What is the quantum, or messenger particle, of gravity?
(a) The Calabi-Yau particle.
(b) The gravino.
(c) The graviton.
(d) The Einstein boson.

5. The advent of fermionic vibrational patterns resulted in the creation of _____.
(a) Quantum electroweak theory.
(b) Fermionic resonance theory.
(c) Symmetric antistring theory.
(d) Supersymmetric quantum field theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following theory was NOT developed in order to try to resolve the conflicts between quantum mechanics and general relativity?

2. What property did the double-slit experiment demonstrate that light has?

3. Which of the following qualities must a physical law have in order to be considered symmetric?

4. Which of the following is true regarding experimental evidence for super particles?

5. Why are the fluctuations that quantum physics predicts not observable in everyday life?

(see the answer key)

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