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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 TOE stand for?
(a) Theory of Everything.
(b) Theory of Everywhere.
(c) Theory on Ether.
(d) Theory of Excellence.

2. Where did Einstein accept a position?
(a) The German Academy of Science.
(b) The American Academy of Science.
(c) The Italian Academy of Science.
(d) The Prussian Academy of Science.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hubble find about collections of stars?

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

3. What theories implied that supersymmetric field particles should have superpartners?

4. Who did Einstein encourage to begin nuclear research?

5. What can quantum theory represent?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What changed about the way we view zero point fluctuations in the 1940s?

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

4. What is hard to reconcile with Dirac's discoveries in quantum mechanics?

5. What was considered the foundation of a TOE and why did it go out of fashion?

6. How did the general relativity theory break down?

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

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

9. What was the bedrock of relativity theory, and what did it imply?

10. What is vacuum energy?

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