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rosent76

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The idea of inflation makes one clear prediction that, until the discovery of an accelerating expansion, seemed to contradict the available observations. What is this prediction?
 
  A) Inflation predicts that the early universe should have regions of enhanced density that could have acted as seeds for the formation of galaxies and large structures.
  B) The universe should be geometrically flat (in the four dimensions of spacetime).
  C) Inflation predicts that the temperature of the cosmic microwave background should be almost (but not exactly) the same everywhere.
  D) Inflation predicts that the entire universe must be far larger than the observable universe.

Question 2

The mass of a neutrino is
 
  A) equal to the mass of an electron.
  B) equal to the mass of a proton.
  C) equal to the mass of a neutron.
  D) less than the mass of an electron but its actual value is unknown.
  E) zero.



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

D





 

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