History of general relativity - Quiz
A) 1970 to 1985 B) 1950 to 1965 C) 1955 to 1970 D) 1960 to 1975
A) Thermodynamics B) Quantum mechanics C) General relativity D) Classical electromagnetism
A) Plate tectonics B) Atomic fission C) Gravitational singularities D) Quantum entanglement
A) Steady State theory B) String theory C) Big Bang D) Inflationary model
A) Roy Kerr B) Kip Thorne C) Fulvio Melia D) Andrzej Trautman
A) Fulvio Melia B) Andrzej Trautman C) Kip Thorne D) Roy Kerr
A) Michelson–Morley experiment B) Pound–Rebka experiment C) Cavendish experiment D) Double-slit experiment
A) Kip Thorne B) Andrzej Trautman C) Roy Kerr D) Albert Einstein
A) As a failed hypothesis B) As a mainstream theory C) As a branch of chemistry D) As a curiosity
A) Paris B) Warsaw C) Berlin D) London
A) Kerr B) Kerr–Newman C) Schwarzschild D) Reissner–Nordström
A) Martin Kruskal B) Albert Einstein C) Arthur Stanley Eddington D) Roy Kerr
A) Deflection of light by the Sun B) Black hole imaging C) Gravitational waves D) Precession of Mercury's orbit
A) 1919 B) 2015 C) 1957 D) 1915
A) 2019 B) 1957 C) 1919 D) 2015
A) Messier 87 B) The Sun C) Mercury D) A binary pulsar
A) Loop quantum gravity B) String theory C) Brans–Dicke D) Rosen's bimetric theory
A) Quantum mechanics B) Global positioning system C) Solar eclipses D) Binary pulsars
A) The Schwarzschild solution B) Bimetric theory C) Scalar–tensor theory D) Quantum gravity
A) Rotating and charged B) Spherically symmetric and neutral C) Spherically symmetric and rotating D) Non-rotating and charged
A) Brans–Dicke is more accurate B) They are the same C) General relativity is more accurate D) They are incompatible
A) Energy released by the GPS system B) Particles emitted by binary pulsars C) Ripples in the curvature of spacetime D) Changes in quantum gravity
A) The death of Einstein B) Neutron-star merger GW170817 C) The discovery of the Reissner–Nordström solution D) The 1919 solar eclipse
A) It fails to explain the precession of Mercury B) It contradicts the GPS system C) It does not predict gravitational waves D) It is inconsistent with quantum mechanics
A) Edwin Hubble B) Karl Schwarzschild C) Sir Arthur Eddington D) Alexander Friedmann
A) Edwin Hubble B) Albert Einstein C) Georges Lemaître D) Ludwik Silberstein
A) Karl Schwarzschild B) Sir Arthur Eddington C) Georges Lemaître D) Alexander Friedmann
A) 1915 B) 1922 C) 1916 D) 1929
A) Sir Arthur Eddington B) Karl Schwarzschild C) Edwin Hubble D) Alexander Friedmann
A) A perturbation variable B) The cosmological constant C) A spherical coordinate system D) Non-linear tensors
A) Alexander Friedmann B) Georges Lemaître C) Karl Schwarzschild D) Edwin Hubble
A) An unnecessary approximation B) The pinnacle of scientific thinking C) A brilliant masterstroke D) The biggest blunder
A) A fundamental requirement B) A common variable C) An ad hoc hypothesis D) A proven necessity
A) A static, linear universe B) A non-massive, flat space C) An unstable, expanding universe D) Spherically symmetric
A) Jupiter B) Mercury C) Venus D) Mars
A) 15 November 1915 B) 25 October 1915 C) 1 January 1916 D) 25 November 1915
A) Riemann curvature B) Ricci tensor C) Ricci scalar D) Radius of the universe
A) Metric tensor B) Gravitational constant C) Gradient vector D) Geodesic path
A) Max Planck B) David Hilbert C) Werner Heisenberg D) Gustav Mie
A) Bernhard Riemann B) Gustav Mie C) Isaac Newton D) James Clerk Maxwell
A) A variational principle B) Empirical observation only C) Euclidean postulates D) Inductive reasoning
A) Hendrik Lorentz B) Marcel Grossmann C) Paul Ehrenfest D) Tullio Levi-Civita
A) Willem de Sitter B) Max Born C) Marcel Grossmann D) Tullio Levi-Civita
A) Hendrik Lorentz B) Marcel Grossmann C) Max Born D) Arthur Stanley Eddington
A) Lick Observatory B) Mount Wilson Observatory C) ETH Zurich D) Leiden University
A) Paul Dirac B) Albert Einstein C) Tullio Levi-Civita D) Max Born
A) Riemannian Physics B) General Covariance Movement C) Deutsche Physik D) Modern Physics Union
A) The hole argument B) The curvature inconsistency C) The solar eclipse contradiction D) The redshift paradox
A) Three years B) Fifteen years C) Ten years D) Five years
A) Dean B) Lecturer C) Professorship D) Research assistant
A) Max Born B) Willem de Sitter C) Arthur Stanley Eddington D) Paul Dirac
A) Isaac Newton B) Henri Poincaré C) Albert Einstein D) Erwin Finlay-Freundlich
A) 1910-1920 B) 1907-1915 C) 1905-1912 D) 1900-1910
A) Henri Poincaré B) Albert Einstein C) Erwin Finlay-Freundlich D) Charles D. Perrine
A) The Big Bang theory B) His happiest thought C) The rotating disk experiment D) The equivalence principle
A) A stationary light source B) A uniformly accelerated box C) A freefalling observer D) A rotating turntable
A) Charles D. Perrine B) Erwin Finlay-Freundlich C) W. W. Campbell D) Henri Poincaré
A) Albert Einstein B) Arthur Eddington C) Erwin Finlay-Freundlich D) Charles D. Perrine
A) Technical error in calculation B) Outbreak of World War I C) Heavy rain D) Equipment failure
A) Newtonian geometry B) Special relativistic geometry C) Riemannian geometry D) Euclidean geometry |
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