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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 can one not curve space without also curving?
(a) Functions.
(b) Time.
(c) Gravity.
(d) Spacetime.

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

3. What did Hubble find about collections of stars?
(a) Collections of stars always have two megastars.
(b) They are sometimes red-shifted and blue-shifted.
(c) Super novas are common in collections of stars.
(d) Black holes can be found within large collections of stars.

4. What theory of Einstein's contradicted Newton's law of gravity?
(a) Specifism.
(b) Conscience.
(c) Relativity.
(d) Pacificism.

5. What theories implied that supersymmetric field particles should have superpartners?
(a) Supergravity theories.
(b) Symmetric movement theories.
(c) Supertheoric partner theories.
(d) Particle accelerator theories.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Einstein born?

2. What was everywhere when the universe was small?

3. By what year was Einstein famous?

4. What is one reason Hawking takes multiple dimensions seriously?

5. What was the twentieth century's other complete conceptual revolution?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe imaginary time.

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

10. What was the "ether" theory?

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