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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To observe black holes you must observe what?
(a) Their distance from the nearest star.
(b) Their cause.
(c) Their effects.
(d) Their mass.

2. The only constant in the universe is what?
(a) Space.
(b) The speed of light.
(c) The speed of sound.
(d) Time.

3. What is the name of the particles that make up light?
(a) Protons.
(b) Photons.
(c) Electrons.
(d) Gluons.

4. The universe has how many dimensions?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

5. As an observer's velocity comes close to the speed of light, the observer's mass does what?
(a) Decreases to almost nothing.
(b) Increases to almost infinity.
(c) Covers more space.
(d) Stays the same.

6. Unlike children, scientists and philosophers, most adults use what to explain away the fundamental questions of the universe?
(a) Logic.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Religion.

7. Most people believe that since the universe had a beginning it must have a what?
(a) A timeline.
(b) A middle.
(c) An end.
(d) A birth.

8. How close is the closest star, other than the sun, to earth?
(a) About 3 light years distant.
(b) About 4 light years distant.
(c) About 5 light years distant.
(d) About 5 light years distant.

9. Why do the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity need to be unified?
(a) To accurately describe future events.
(b) To accurately describe the fate of the universe.
(c) To accurately describe the very small and the very large.
(d) To accurately calculate observations.

10. Time is not separate from space, but is combined with it to form what?
(a) The two dimesions.
(b) Three dimensional space.
(c) The spectrum.
(d) Space-time.

11. Galaxies contain what?
(a) Other galaxies.
(b) The earth.
(c) Stars.
(d) The universe.

12. Stephen Hawking has what disease?
(a) Ancel Hoffman disease.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Lou Gehrig's disease.

13. In order to explain how black holes become a big bang, Hawking needs to include what?
(a) The theory of everything.
(b) Particle physics.
(c) The theory of relativity.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

14. Edwin Hubble's observation that the universe is expanding supports what theory?
(a) The Dark Bang theory.
(b) The Dark Matter theory.
(c) The Universe Expansion theory.
(d) The Big Bang theory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A black hole results from a large star using up what type of fuel?

2. What force is so strong in a black hole that nothing can escape?

3. When was the uncertainty principle developed?

4. The development of what kind of technology depends upon the theory of quantum mechanics?

5. What does a particle with 0 spin look like?

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