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

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

3. What did Penrose and Hawking demonstrate concerning General Relativity?
(a) The universe started with a massive explosion.
(b) The universe started with a tiny whirpool of light.
(c) The universe will collapse in a hundred years.
(d) The universe will end with a massive explosion.

4. What is a p = 1 brane?
(a) A string.
(b) A plane.
(c) A box.
(d) A cone.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did nineteenth century scientists believe space was pervaded by?

3. What does Hawking think is beneficial concerning matter?

4. What did Hawking and Hartle believe the universe may not have?

5. How many galaxies are there?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is space-time?

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

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

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

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

8. Briefly describe Einstein's involvement in the events of WWII.

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

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

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