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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 did Newton's model suggest about time and space?
(a) Time and space are inter-related subparticle phenomena.
(b) Time and space were not affected by events around them.
(c) Time and space can't be observed.
(d) Time and space are only observed.

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

3. What is a p = 2 brane?
(a) A wall.
(b) A surface.
(c) A ladder.
(d) A geometrical unit.

4. What does Hawking think is beneficial concerning matter?
(a) Matter is converted into energy from periscopal fields.
(b) Energy is converted into matter from gravitational fields.
(c) Mass is converted into matter from gravitational fields.
(d) Matter is converted into weight.

5. What did Einstein suggest concerning the speed of light?
(a) Light is independent of time.
(b) Light is independent of motion.
(c) Light is dependent on motion.
(d) Light is dependent on time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does supersymmetry imply?

2. What human conceptions did Einstein's papers change?

3. Because galaxies are not far apart, fifteen billion years ago what might have occurred?

4. What can one not curve space without also curving?

5. By what year was Einstein famous?

(see the answer key)

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