Quiz 4

• 1 Which of the following is NOT supporting evidence for the Big Bang?
  
  
  • a. Hubble's Law
  • b. Quasars in the early universe
  • c. Helium abundance
  • d. Age of the Sun
  
  
  
  
• 2. The cosmic microwave background radiation comes from the primordial fireball when the universe was
  
  
  • c. 400,000 years old
  
  
  
  
• 3. Which of the following geometries is NOT one of the three allowed by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity?
  
  
  • a. square
  • b. closed
  • c. open
  • d. flat
  
  
  
  
• 4. A thought experiment suggesting the entire night sky should be as bright as the Sun
  
  
  • c. Olbers's Paradox
  
  
  
  
• 5. The Cosmological Principle states
  
  
  • c. On a large scale, the universe is homogeneous and isotropic