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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Going to the SpaceTime conference of 1954.
(d) Finishing the job in two weeks.

4. According to Popper, what happens if positivism is true?
(a) We cannot believe in time.
(b) We lose all negativity.
(c) We cannot say what time is.
(d) We cannot say what space is.

5. How many galaxies are there?
(a) Two trillion.
(b) Five million.
(c) Billions and billions.
(d) One hundred thousand.

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

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

8. What can we not coherently ask about the way the universe is?
(a) Why the universe will end.
(b) Why the universe is the way it is.
(c) Why the universe is so big.
(d) Why the universe is so small.

9. Dirac's discoveries were difficult to reconcile with what?
(a) Hawking's harangue on black hole theory.
(b) Popper's theory of demystification.
(c) Newton's law of gravity.
(d) Maxwell's unification of magnetism, energy, and electricity.

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

11. What does time have?
(a) A being.
(b) A shape.
(c) A presence.
(d) A mark.

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

13. What did the philosopher Immanuel Kant worry about concerning time and Newton's model?
(a) That this implied time was infinite.
(b) That Newton's model was too irrelevant.
(c) This this implied time was finite.
(d) That Newton's model was disproportionate.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What theory of Einstein's contradicted Newton's law of gravity?

2. What did Einstein suggest concerning the speed of light?

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

4. What does supersymmetry imply?

5. How did the universe initially expand?

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