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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Predicting the Future.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What may be a law of nature?
(a) Decompression.
(b) Inflation.
(c) Lifestyle.
(d) Condensation.

2. What can quantum theory represent?
(a) The model of a timewarp.
(b) The dimensions of spacetime.
(c) The shaping of space and time.
(d) The curves of space and time.

3. Who later showed that general relativity implied the Big Bang?
(a) Stephen Hawking and Matthew Williams.
(b) Allen Walton and Zion Greenlee.
(c) Allen Walton and Roger Penrose.
(d) Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose.

4. How does Hawking think we should try to understand the beginning of the universe?
(a) In terms of philosophy.
(b) In terms of scientific arguments.
(c) In terms of religious theories.
(d) In terms of scientific laws.

5. Who were unconvinced by the ideas of an infinite past and future?
(a) Lifshitz and Hawking.
(b) Penrose and Hawking.
(c) Popper and Newkowitz.
(d) Shalob and Khalatnikov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What may the no boundary condition imply?

2. In what realm of physics is it important to consider the Schrodinger equation?

3. What did the philosopher Immanuel Kant worry about concerning time and Newton's model?

4. What did Hubble find about collections of stars?

5. What is intuitive to think about the "ground state" or stationary state of an object?

(see the answer key)

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