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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. How did physicists respond to Hawking and Penrose's work?
(a) They were insanely horrified.
(b) They were mystified.
(c) They disliked the idea.
(d) They were delighted.

2. How did the universe initially expand?
(a) Rapidly and then more slowly.
(b) Fully and then not at all.
(c) Increasingly quick.
(d) Markedly slow.

3. What does general relativity combine time with space to form?
(a) Two-dimensional planes.
(b) Four-dimensional space-time.
(c) Five-dimensional warp speed.
(d) Three-dimensional physics.

4. What did nineteenth century scientists believe space was pervaded by?
(a) Asteroids.
(b) Time.
(c) Ether.
(d) Methane.

5. What did Hawking and Hartle believe the universe may not have?
(a) A boundary.
(b) A time condition.
(c) A broad scope.
(d) A narrow scope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

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

3. Who developed quantum theory?

4. Because of the curvature of space-time, how do paths appear to bend?

5. According to Popper, what happens if positivism is true?

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