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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Newton's model suggest about time and space?
(a) Time and space are only observed.
(b) Time and space were not affected by events around them.
(c) Time and space are inter-related subparticle phenomena.
(d) Time and space can't be observed.

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

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

4. What is thought to expand at an accelerating rate in our universe?
(a) Matter.
(b) Scope.
(c) Reach.
(d) Light.

5. What were Fat Man and Little Boy dropped on in 1945?
(a) Honolulu and Maui.
(b) Paris and London.
(c) Berlin and Kohn.
(d) Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of lengths do P-branes have?

2. What can one not curve space without also curving?

3. What did Einstein assume about scientific laws?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is vacuum energy?

2. Who worked on quantum mechanics in the 1920s, and what discovery was made?

3. What new sort of symmetry was discovered in the 1970s?

4. What idea about the galaxies did Einstein never take seriously?

5. Why does the theory of general relativity break down when discussing the Big Bang?

6. What kind of history might the universe have, according to quantum mechanics?

7. What is Hawking's view about mathematical models?

8. Why do ground state fluctuations have serious effects on the quantum theory of gravity?

9. What was the "ether" theory?

10. What did Einstein do in 1905 that launched him to the top of the scientific community?

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