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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. Because galaxies are not far apart, fifteen billion years ago what might have occurred?
(a) A light was turned on.
(b) A "Big Bang."
(c) A solar system was reduced to ten atoms.
(d) An earthquake.

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

3. What do string theories most notably lack?
(a) Dimensions.
(b) Numbers.
(c) Proofs.
(d) Infinities.

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

5. What did one of Einstein's mathematical errors prevent Marcel and Einstein from doing?
(a) Finishing the job in two weeks.
(b) Colloborating on a second effort.
(c) Formulating the appropriate equations.
(d) Going to the SpaceTime conference of 1954.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did religious leaders respond to Hawking and Penrose's work?

2. What did this theory of curved spaces help Einstein and Marcel Grossman to do?

3. What did Newton's model suggest about time and space?

4. What did Einstein assume about scientific laws?

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

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