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