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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 did Newton's model suggest about time and space?
(a) Time and space can't be observed.
(b) Time and space were not affected by events around them.
(c) Time and space are only observed.
(d) Time and space are inter-related subparticle phenomena.

2. What can we not coherently ask about the way the universe is?
(a) Why the universe will end.
(b) Why the universe is the way it is.
(c) Why the universe is so big.
(d) Why the universe is so small.

3. Who produced the theory about curved spaces?
(a) Georg Reimann.
(b) Professor Marx.
(c) Harvey Dent.
(d) George Markowitz.

4. Because of the curvature of space-time, how do paths appear to bend?
(a) As if moved by gravity.
(b) As if moved by magnets.
(c) As if moved by a field.
(d) As if moved by a plane.

5. How do objects in space-time attempt to move?
(a) In boxes.
(b) In loops.
(c) In curves.
(d) In straight lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of lengths do P-branes have?

2. What have serious effects on a quantum theory of gravity?

3. What partially restores determinism as a view?

4. Dirac's discoveries were difficult to reconcile with what?

5. What do string theories most notably lack?

(see the answer key)

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