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

2. What can p-branes predict?
(a) The rates of emission that the molecules emit.
(b) The rates of emission that the virtual-particle pair indicates.
(c) The rates of consumption that the real-particle pair indicates.
(d) The rates of condensation that the virtual-particle trio indicates.

3. What does the universe's real-time history determine, according to Hawking and Hartle?
(a) Its third-eye time history.
(b) Its historical fictions.
(c) Its imaginary time history and vice versa.
(d) Its fictional time history.

4. What is the name of Hawking's conjecture about the laws of physics and macroscopic time travel?
(a) The Theoretical Projection Conjecture.
(b) The Timeline Protection Conjecture.
(c) The Chronology Protection Conjecture.
(d) The Chronological Spacetime Conjecture.

5. Who believed they could interpret General Relativity so time had an infinite past and an infinite future?
(a) Lucas and Marx.
(b) Hawking and Penrose.
(c) Lifshitz and Khalatnikov.
(d) Shalob and Khalatnikov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What theories of relativity did Einstein advance?

2. What kind of philosophy do black holes have?

3. What laws might allow space-time to warp to allow a spaceship to travel through the past?

4. By what year was Einstein famous?

5. Who later showed that general relativity implied the Big Bang?

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