Refer to This Scenario for the Following Questions

question 81

Multiple Choice

Refer to this scenario for the following questions:
Lost in Spacetime.Just when you thought it was safe to take final exams ...a vindictive multi-dimensional being reaches down (up? over? through?) to Earth and pulls you out of the universe.You are thrown back into the universe at a place of this being's choosing,and she permits you to leave only after you have identified your surroundings.You are subject to several tests.
Through a scientifically unexplainable miracle,you are able to survive in every one of the places you are tested.(Lest you become too comfortable,however,you certainly are able to feel any associated pain due to high temperature,pressure,gravity,etc. ) In each case described below,identify your surroundings.In some cases,the surroundings described may exist only during eras of the universe (past or future) other than our own time;in those cases,you should identify both the place and the time where you are located.
-It sure is bright everywhere;you've been able to travel around a bit,and it's clear that you are not in a star.Yet it is as bright as looking directly at the Sun.In your extensive travels through your current surroundings,you cannot find a single neutral atom anywhere,nor can you find a nucleus besides hydrogen or helium.And,while it is hot (a few thousand degrees Kelvin) ,it is nowhere near the temperature needed for nuclear fusion.Where are you?

• A)You are in the universe during its first 300,000 years.
• B)You are in the universe more than 10¹⁰⁰ years in the future.
• C)You are in an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole.
• D)You are in the central regions of a quasar.
• E)You are where the Sun should be located,but about 5 billion years from now.