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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 The Arrow of Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of theories try to bring the various virtual particles together as one entity, but do not include gravity?
(a) Grand Unification Theories.
(b) Theories of Everything.
(c) Theories of Unification Principles.
(d) Grand Complete Theories.

2. Who said, "God does not play dice."
(a) Werner Heisenberg.
(b) Erwin Schrodinger.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Max Plank.

3. What star system has a fairly certain black hole?
(a) Cygnus X-1.
(b) Marlin X-2.
(c) Lythia X-1.
(d) Pegasus X-2.

4. A black hole has zero what?
(a) Mass.
(b) Curvature.
(c) Expansion.
(d) Volume and surface area.

5. What does Hawking say math is useful for?
(a) Communicating about our observations.
(b) Communicating in a single language.
(c) Describing everything we know.
(d) Describing what we observe in the known universe.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Edwin Hubble discover galaxies outside of our own?

2. If you use Hawking's model of the universe, how did the universe start?

3. Which of the following is not an arrow of time recognized by Hawking's book?

4. Which virtual particle carries the electromagnetic force?

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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