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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 of the following accurately describes the phenomenon of "quantum tunneling"?
(a) High-energy waves can penetrate the fabric of space-time for very short periods of time.
(b) Particles with high energy can vanish in one location, instantly appearing in another.
(c) Some particles are linked together, no matter how much space separates them.
(d) Particles can sometimes "borrow" energy to move in ways impossible in classical physics.

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

3. What is one of the difficulties in determining the shape of the Calabi-Yau space?
(a) No field of mathematics exists to support it.
(b) There are an infinite number of unknowns in its governing equation.
(c) The shape has an unequal number of real and imaginary dimensions.
(d) The equations governing its shape are too complex.

4. In the 1800s, James Clerk Maxwell used a new mathematical framework to unite _____.
(a) Nuclear forces and gravity.
(b) Magnetism and light.
(c) Electricity and magnetism.
(d) Magnetism and gravity.

5. Which of the following is one of the difficulties in observing super particles?
(a) They are too massive to be observed in a particle accelerator.
(b) They are incredibly rare, and pass through most matter.
(c) They are massless.
(d) They do not interact with either matter or light.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What property of electromagnetic waves did Max Planck solve the thermodynamic problem of the oven by discovering?

3. What spin do all particles of matter have?

4. Which of the following is true of a particle's spin?

5. In which particle was spin first discovered?

(see the answer key)

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