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  1. 1.What is the measurement problem in quantum mechanics?

    • •The impossibility of measuring both position and momentum simultaneously
    • •The challenge of measuring quantum effects at macroscopic scales
    • •The problem of how and why quantum superpositions appear to collapse into definite outcomes upon measurement
    • •The technical difficulty of measuring quantum particles without disturbing them

  2. 2.What is the Standard Model of particle physics?

    • •The theoretical framework describing all known fundamental particles and three of four fundamental forces (electromagnetic, weak, strong — excluding gravity)
    • •A theory unifying gravity with quantum mechanics
    • •The classification of all chemical elements in the periodic table
    • •A model explaining only the structure of atoms and molecules

  3. 3.What is the principle of equivalence in general relativity?

    • •All physical laws are the same in every reference frame
    • •All forms of energy are equivalent to mass
    • •Electric and magnetic fields are fundamentally the same phenomenon
    • •Gravitational acceleration is locally indistinguishable from the acceleration of a reference frame — gravity and inertia are equivalent

  4. 4.What is Planck's constant and why is it important?

    • •A fundamental constant (h ≈ 6.626×10⁻³⁴ J·s) that relates a photon's energy to its frequency and sets the scale of quantum effects
    • •The gravitational constant relating mass to gravitational force
    • •The constant relating temperature to the average kinetic energy of gas molecules
    • •The speed of light constant in Einstein's equations

  5. 5.What is quantum entanglement?

    • •The process of splitting an atom into smaller particles
    • •A phenomenon where particles become correlated and measuring one instantly affects the other
    • •The merging of two quantum fields into one
    • •The tunneling of particles through energy barriers

  6. 6.What is renormalization in quantum field theory?

    • •The conversion of classical equations into quantum mechanical ones
    • •A mathematical technique for removing infinities from calculations in QFT by redefining physical parameters at each energy scale
    • •The process of normalizing wavefunctions so probabilities sum to one
    • •The procedure for calculating cross-sections in particle collisions

  7. 7.What is the holographic principle?

    • •The principle that 3D images can be stored on 2D surfaces using lasers
    • •The conjecture that all information within a volume of space can be described by a theory on the boundary of that region
    • •The idea that the universe is a computer simulation
    • •A principle stating that observing a quantum system always alters it

  8. 8.What is the Chandrasekhar limit?

    • •The maximum mass (~1.4 solar masses) a white dwarf star can have before electron degeneracy pressure can no longer support it against gravitational collapse
    • •The maximum distance at which a star can gravitationally bind a planet
    • •The maximum temperature a star can reach before going supernova
    • •The minimum mass needed for nuclear fusion to begin in a star

  9. 9.What is the spin-statistics theorem?

    • •Particle spin is always conserved in collisions
    • •All particles with the same spin have the same mass
    • •Spinning particles generate magnetic fields proportional to their mass
    • •Particles with integer spin (bosons) obey Bose-Einstein statistics; half-integer spin (fermions) obey Fermi-Dirac statistics

  10. 10.What is the hierarchy problem in particle physics?

    • •The challenge of fitting gravity into the Standard Model
    • •The problem of explaining why there are exactly three generations of particles
    • •The puzzle of why gravity is vastly weaker than the other fundamental forces (or equivalently, why the Higgs mass is so small compared to the Planck scale)
    • •The difficulty of classifying all elementary particles into families