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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 would happen if energy escaped the black hole over time?
(a) Its temperature would rise.
(b) Its light would fragment.
(c) Its fragrance would emit.
(d) Its heat would escape as well.

2. What does Hawking resist believing in?
(a) Never-ending dimensions.
(b) Ten dimensions.
(c) Extra dimensions.
(d) One dimension.

3. What does the Schrodinger equation specify?
(a) The rate at which satellites operate particle states.
(b) The rate at which light function changes with speed.
(c) The rate at which wave function changes with time.
(d) The rate at which bell curves change with motion.

4. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?
(a) That black holes house new worlds.
(b) That black holes are empty.
(c) That black holes are composed of p-branes.
(d) That black holes are composed of f-branes.

5. What does time have?
(a) A mark.
(b) A shape.
(c) A presence.
(d) A being.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two things are considered capable of shaping space-time, according to Einstein?

2. Who were unconvinced by the ideas of an infinite past and future?

3. What was discovered in the 1970s that revealed a natural physical mechanism?

4. When was absolute time overthrown as an idea?

5. How did physicists respond to Hawking and Penrose's work?

(see the answer key)

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