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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 Hawking think is beneficial concerning matter?
(a) Energy is converted into matter from gravitational fields.
(b) Mass is converted into matter from gravitational fields.
(c) Matter is converted into energy from periscopal fields.
(d) Matter is converted into weight.

2. What do string theories most notably lack?
(a) Infinities.
(b) Proofs.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Dimensions.

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

4. What did nineteenth century scientists believe space was pervaded by?
(a) Asteroids.
(b) Time.
(c) Methane.
(d) Ether.

5. What may imaginary time surfaces actually be?
(a) Curved surfaces.
(b) Open planes.
(c) Closed surfaces.
(d) Closed lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who later showed that general relativity implied the Big Bang?

2. When were strings regarded as insufficient?

3. What may be a law of nature?

4. What is thought to expand at an accelerating rate in our universe?

5. What did the philosopher Immanuel Kant worry about concerning time and Newton's model?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the E = mc2 equation show?

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

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

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

6. What is space-time?

7. What does Hawking believe the possibility of intelligent beings' existence depends on?

8. Describe imaginary time.

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

10. How did the general relativity theory break down?

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