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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Brane New World.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By what year was Einstein famous?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1899.

3. What do cosmic strings allow space-time to do?
(a) Separate them.
(b) Curve around them.
(c) Push them closer together.
(d) Push them apart.

4. What kind of energy density might an advanced civilization be able to create?
(a) An energy density finite on a spatial plane.
(b) An energy density infinite on a level ground.
(c) An energy density infinite on a spatial boundary.
(d) An energy density finite on a time boundary.

5. How did the universe initially expand?
(a) Rapidly and then more slowly.
(b) Fully and then not at all.
(c) Markedly slow.
(d) Increasingly quick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hawking say might happen if humans don't destroy themselves?

2. Where did Einstein move in 1914?

3. What did nineteenth century scientists believe space was pervaded by?

4. What famous quote is attributed to physicist John Wheeler?

5. What does the Schrodinger equation specify?

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