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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Universe in a Nutshell.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have serious effects on a quantum theory of gravity?
(a) Third state fluctuations.
(b) Fourth state fluctuations.
(c) Ground state fluctuations.
(d) Second state fluctuations.

2. What may be a law of nature?
(a) Condensation.
(b) Lifestyle.
(c) Decompression.
(d) Inflation.

3. Which project produced Fat Man and Little Boy?
(a) The Chicago Project.
(b) The Brooklyn Project.
(c) The Manhattan Project.
(d) The Farside Project.

4. What equation shows mass and energy are equivalent?
(a) E = mc2.
(b) G = cm2.
(c) G = mc3.
(d) E = cm3.

5. Whom did Einstein later marry after his first marriage fell apart?
(a) His friend Margaret.
(b) His sister's friend Eleanor.
(c) His brother's sister Mary.
(d) His cousin Elsa.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one of the twentieth century's greatest discoveries?

3. What did Einstein resist to admit that general relativity implied if all the stars died?

4. What does the universe's real-time history determine, according to Hawking and Hartle?

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

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