Timescape Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Timescape? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What is the name of the crystalline compound Renfrew uses to send the tachyon messages back in time?


Quartz
Dilithium crystal
MacGuffinium
Indium antimonide
Q. During his colloquium, Freeman Dyson discusses what hypothetical nuclear-powered rocket for space travel?


The USS Enterprise
Project Orion
The Apollo Project
Sputnik Program
Q. Which professor comforts Gordon when he's taking a ribbing from his fellow professors, and later goes on to become the second female Nobel laureate in physics?


Marie Curie
Catharine Wickham
Sarah Conner
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Q. Renfrew works at what famous Cambridge laboratory?


La Jolla
The Cav
Fermilab
Aperture Science Labs
Q. What famous physicist duo does Markham credit with working out the physics of time communications all the way back in the 1940s?


Oppenheimer and Einstein
Wheeler and Feynmann
Watson and Crick
Dexter and his sister, DeeDee