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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Protecting the Past.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hawking resist believing in?
(a) One dimension.
(b) Extra dimensions.
(c) Never-ending dimensions.
(d) Ten dimensions.

2. What was the twentieth century's other complete conceptual revolution?
(a) Molecular physics.
(b) Quantum geology.
(c) Molecular biology.
(d) Quantum theory.

3. What theories implied that supersymmetric field particles should have superpartners?
(a) Particle accelerator theories.
(b) Supergravity theories.
(c) Symmetric movement theories.
(d) Supertheoric partner theories.

4. What did Hubble find about collections of stars?
(a) Collections of stars always have two megastars.
(b) Black holes can be found within large collections of stars.
(c) They are sometimes red-shifted and blue-shifted.
(d) Super novas are common in collections of stars.

5. What does the p-brane model show about information?
(a) Information will be captured in the p-brane waves' wave functions.
(b) Information cannot be captured.
(c) Information can be channeled through bell curves and wave functions.
(d) Information will escape a bit at a time through waves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hawking think black holes radiate?

2. When was absolute time overthrown as an idea?

3. When were strings regarded as insufficient?

4. How did the universe initially expand?

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

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