The Goldfish Paradox
What Italian city banned curved fishbowls for goldfish?
What is Monza
In what decade was string theory first proposed?
What is The 1970s
What is the name of the philosophical concept introduced at the end of the physics passage?
What is Model-dependent realism
hat vegetable is the speaker in the poem compared to?
What is Answer: An onion
What is the name of the main character in Kindred?
What is Dana Franklin
According to the passage, what philosophical belief states that an external world exists independent of the observer?
What is Realism
How many different string theories did physicists discover by the early 1990s?
What is five
According to model-dependent realism, can one version of reality be said to be more real than another?
What is no
What does the speaker say lies beneath each skin of theirs?
What is Another skin
In what year does the novel Kindred begin?
What is 1976
How does light behave when traveling from air to water, according to the goldfish example?
What is Bending (or refraction)
What are mathematical dictionaries that translate concepts between different theories called?
What is Dualities
What science-fiction film is mentioned as an example of alternative realities in popular culture?
What is The Matrix
What two things does the speaker say are the human's "only signs of progress"?
What is Ruin and tears
What city does Dana live in at the beginning of the novel?
What is Los Angeles
What would a goldfish observe about an object moving in a straight line outside its bowl?
What is A curved path
What is the name of the more fundamental theory that the five string theories are approximations of?
What is M-theory
Why would beings living in a simulated world have no reason to doubt their own pictures of reality?
What is Because they cannot gaze into their universe from the outside
According to the speaker, what does the human's mind act like as they search for truth?
What is A stopless knife
What strange event happens to Dana in the opening chapter?
What is She gets transported back in time
What is the main philosophical question raised by the goldfish bowl story?
What is How do we know that the reality we perceive is true?
According to the passage, what analogy is used to explain how M-theory works like a collection of different theories?
What is A map of the Earth
What does the passage suggest might be the way of the universe in terms of describing it with theories?
What is Employing different theories in different situations
What does the speaker suggest about the human's soul at the end of the poem?
What is That it is divided at the heart and lost in a maze
What is Dana's profession or what does she do for work?
What is A writer