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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who later showed that general relativity implied the Big Bang?
(a) Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose.
(b) Stephen Hawking and Matthew Williams.
(c) Allen Walton and Zion Greenlee.
(d) Allen Walton and Roger Penrose.

2. What did Einstein wish people to abandon concerning time?
(a) A general notion of the ratio of time to speed.
(b) A universal notion of time.
(c) That time equals money.
(d) The idea of the 24 hour clock.

3. What do models based on imaginary time make?
(a) False predictions.
(b) Good predictions.
(c) Innumerable falsities.
(d) Blanket superstitions.

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

5. Who did Einstein encourage to begin nuclear research?
(a) President Roosevelt.
(b) President Johnson.
(c) President Truman.
(d) President Grant.

6. What can one not curve space without also curving?
(a) Time.
(b) Functions.
(c) Gravity.
(d) Spacetime.

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

8. What does Hawking believe the possibility of intelligent beings depends on?
(a) The amount of thought in the universe.
(b) The amount of matter in the universe.
(c) The amount of time in the universe.
(d) The amount of space in the universe.

9. How many articles did Einstein pen that rocketed him to the top of the scientific community?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Ten.
(d) Two.

10. What can quantum theory represent?
(a) The curves of space and time.
(b) The model of a timewarp.
(c) The shaping of space and time.
(d) The dimensions of spacetime.

11. What did Einstein assume about scientific laws?
(a) Laws should remain constant in the view of all observers.
(b) Laws are never fallible.
(c) Laws are always fallible.
(d) Most laws need to be rewritten.

12. Who produced the theory about curved spaces?
(a) Harvey Dent.
(b) Professor Marx.
(c) George Markowitz.
(d) Georg Reimann.

13. When were strings regarded as insufficient?
(a) After 1988.
(b) Before 1985.
(c) Before 1988.
(d) After 1985.

14. What is one reason Hawking takes multiple dimensions seriously?
(a) Conclusive relationships between plane models.
(b) Unexpected relationships between various string models.
(c) Unexpected relationships between multiple dimensions.
(d) Expected relationships between diverse string thories.

15. What theory of Einstein's contradicted Newton's law of gravity?
(a) Pacificism.
(b) Specifism.
(c) Conscience.
(d) Relativity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did one of Einstein's mathematical errors prevent Marcel and Einstein from doing?

2. What does time have?

3. Which project produced Fat Man and Little Boy?

4. How does Hawking think we should try to understand the beginning of the universe?

5. What is a p = 1 brane?

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