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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Shape of Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the philosopher Immanuel Kant worry about concerning time and Newton's model?
(a) That Newton's model was disproportionate.
(b) This this implied time was finite.
(c) That Newton's model was too irrelevant.
(d) That this implied time was infinite.

2. Who developed quantum theory?
(a) Max Planck.
(b) Max Wurst.
(c) Percy Max.
(d) Max Jeoff.

3. What does supersymmetry imply?
(a) That gamma rays have a spin property.
(b) That molecules have a spin property.
(c) That strings have a spin property.
(d) That particles had a spin property.

4. 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 inter-related subparticle phenomena.
(d) Time and space are only observed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Einstein born?

2. Who believed they could interpret General Relativity so time had an infinite past and an infinite future?

3. What do string theories most notably lack?

4. By what year was Einstein famous?

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

(see the answer key)

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