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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 does relativity show about the speed of light?
(a) The speed of light is independent of will.
(b) The speed of light will appear constant.
(c) The speed of light is dependent upon gravity.
(d) The speed of light is an illusion of motion.

2. What did Einstein resist to admit that general relativity implied if all the stars died?
(a) The universe would never have existed.
(b) The universe would come to an end.
(c) The universe would collapse and recreate itself.
(d) The universe would never die.

3. How does Hawking think we should try to understand the beginning of the universe?
(a) In terms of religious theories.
(b) In terms of scientific arguments.
(c) In terms of philosophy.
(d) In terms of scientific laws.

4. Because galaxies are not far apart, fifteen billion years ago what might have occurred?
(a) A light was turned on.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) A "Big Bang."
(d) A solar system was reduced to ten atoms.

5. Which project produced Fat Man and Little Boy?
(a) The Brooklyn Project.
(b) The Manhattan Project.
(c) The Chicago Project.
(d) The Farside Project.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does general relativity combine time with space to form?

2. What was discovered in the 1970s that revealed a natural physical mechanism?

3. What did Newton's model suggest about time and space?

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

5. What did this theory of curved spaces help Einstein and Marcel Grossman to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the "ether" theory?

2. What did Penrose and Hawking's theory have to say about the universe's history?

3. What is considered to be expanding in our universe, and why does Hawking think this is beneficial?

4. What paper did Einstein write with Grossman in 1913 and what happened in 1915 related to this same project?

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

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

7. What is a p = 1 brane and a p = 2 brane?

8. What is space-time?

9. What is the no boundary condition, and what does it imply?

10. What does it mean for stars to be red-shifted or blue-shifted?

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