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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 methods has been used to determine the shape of the Calabi-Yau space?
(a) Discrete mathematics.
(b) Matrix manipulation.
(c) The finite elements method.
(d) Perturbation theory.

2. Which physicist is credited with discovering that light is composed of particles?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Planck.
(c) Rutherford.
(d) Maxwell.

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

4. There are many possible Calabi-Yau spaces, but only shapes with which of the following characteristics are considered real possibilities?
(a) Those that solve the perturbation theory.
(b) Those that unify the four forces and have no extended dimensions.
(c) Those that have no time-dimensions.
(d) Those that meet the vibration requirements and have an appropriate number of dimensions.

5. Why can the objects predicted by string theory not be observed?
(a) The objects exist only in other dimensions.
(b) Light does not exist at the scales involved.
(c) Current magnification is at least 17 times too wide.
(d) The objects are not composed of matter.

Short Answer Questions

1. String theory claims that super particles _____.

2. What spin do all particles of matter have?

3. Which of the following is one of the major problems in using both quantum physics and general relativity?

4. What characteristic did Werner Heisenberg discovered that some features of the universe at very small scales, and some properties of particle?

5. What type of a wave is light?

(see the answer key)

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