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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Mathematics is the language of what?
(a) Natural sciences.
(b) How things work in the universe.
(c) Physics.
(d) Engineers.
2. Black holes can capture matter particles and what other type of particles?
(a) Virtual.
(b) Quarks.
(c) Gluons.
(d) Gamma.
3. What is the second law of thermodynamics?
(a) In any closed system, the ordering principles stay the same.
(b) In any closed system, disorder increases over time.
(c) In any closed system, time is relative.
(d) In any closed system, disorder decreases over time.
4. Black holes are speculated to be clumped together due to what?
(a) Movement.
(b) Expansion of the universe.
(c) Collapse of the universe.
(d) Gravity.
5. Even empty space is filled with what?
(a) Pairs of protons and electrons.
(b) Pairs of positive and negative particles.
(c) Pairs of particles to form dark matter.
(d) Pairs of virtual particles and antiparticles.
Short Answer Questions
1. The uncertainty principle says that certain pairs of quantities (like position and velocity of a particle) cannot be determined with what?
2. A closed string is defined as what?
3. Why did the universe not collapse back on itself shortly after the big bang?
4. What book did Galileo publish, with the backing of the church's censors?
5. If there is a grand unified theory, according to Hawking it would be the ultimate triumph of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do physicists want to detect black holes?
2. Hawking concludes that life is only possible during the expansion phase of the universe for what reason?
3. What is the difference between string theory and the other theories?
4. Why did the Catholic church demand that Galileo stop writing about Copernican theory?
5. What might have happened to the black holes left over from the early period of the Big Bang?
6. Addressing the question of why the universe exists was once the job of philosophers, but now is not done because of what reason?
7. What does a weak form of the anthropic principle hold for the view of the universe?
8. What does the psychological arrow of time represent?
9. If quantum mechanics is used, then the universe has always done what?
10. What is, according to the book, the most recent attempt to find a complete unified theory?
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