Author Question: You find yourself in a place that looks (except for your own presence) perfectly symmetrical. There ... (Read 18 times)

RRMR · **on:** Jul 27, 2018

You find yourself in a place that looks (except for your own presence) perfectly symmetrical. There is no way to distinguish one place from another, and all forces are one.

With this perfect symmetry, there is no obvious way to define the flow of time. Where are you? A) You are in the center of a young star.
B) You are in the early universe before the Planck time.
C) You are floating somewhere in the universe near its end, 10100 years from now.
D) You are inside the nucleus of an atom.
E) You are in the universe shortly after inflation.

Question 2

In the context of life in the universe, which of the following discoveries of astronomy suggests that extraterrestrial life may be constructed in a similar fashion to life on Earth?

A) the universe is very large
B) the universe is very old
C) the laws of physics are the same everywhere
D) the chemical elements that make up life on Earth are common