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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 may the no boundary condition imply?
(a) The universe will collapse if it cannot be condensed.
(b) The universe is self-conducted.
(c) The universe can never be contained.
(d) The universe is self-contained.

2. When did Einstein receive the Nobel prize?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1921.

3. Who developed quantum theory?
(a) Max Planck.
(b) Percy Max.
(c) Max Jeoff.
(d) Max Wurst.

4. What human conceptions did Einstein's papers change?
(a) Space, time, and reality.
(b) Time, ciphers, and values.
(c) Morals, virtues, and predilections.
(d) Love, warp speed, and imaginary time.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Hawking think we should try to understand the beginning of the universe?

3. What do string theories most notably lack?

4. According to Popper, what happens if positivism is true?

5. What do models based on imaginary time make?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the contradiction of relativity to Newton's law of gravity.

2. Why can't we coherently ask why the universe is the way it is?

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

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

5. Describe imaginary time.

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

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

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

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

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

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