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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 was everywhere when the universe was small?
(a) Atomic effects.
(b) Molecular effects.
(c) Particle effects.
(d) Quantum effects.

2. What was discovered in the 1970s that revealed a natural physical mechanism?
(a) A new sort of timewarp.
(b) A new sort of planck.
(c) A new sort of plane.
(d) A new sort of symmetry.

3. What does time not have apart from the universe?
(a) Independent meaning.
(b) Futuristic tendencies.
(c) Dependent meaning.
(d) Illegitimate significance.

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

5. Who believed they could interpret General Relativity so time had an infinite past and an infinite future?
(a) Lifshitz and Khalatnikov.
(b) Shalob and Khalatnikov.
(c) Lucas and Marx.
(d) Hawking and Penrose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hawking believe the possibility of intelligent beings depends on?

2. Where did Einstein receive his degree?

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

4. What equation shows mass and energy are equivalent?

5. Where did Einstein accept a position?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do ground state fluctuations have serious effects on the quantum theory of gravity?

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

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

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

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

7. How did the general relativity theory break down?

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

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

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

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