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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Predicting the Future.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the twentieth century's other complete conceptual revolution?
(a) Quantum geology.
(b) Molecular biology.
(c) Quantum theory.
(d) Molecular physics.

2. What does Hawking believe any good scientific theory should be rooted in?
(a) The work of mathematician Karl Popper.
(b) The philosophy of science advanced by Karl Popper.
(c) The scientific work of Isaac Newton.
(d) The philosophy of George Markus.

3. What did Einstein resist to admit that general relativity implied if all the stars died?
(a) The universe would never die.
(b) The universe would come to an end.
(c) The universe would never have existed.
(d) The universe would collapse and recreate itself.

4. When was Einstein born?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1798.

5. Who did Einstein encourage to begin nuclear research?
(a) President Johnson.
(b) President Grant.
(c) President Truman.
(d) President Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What may the no boundary condition imply?

2. What does supersymmetry imply?

3. What do the Schrodinger equations assume?

4. What theory of Einstein's contradicted Newton's law of gravity?

5. What do models based on imaginary time make?

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