Refer to This Scenario for the Following Questions

question 99

Multiple Choice

Refer to this scenario for the following questions:
A multi-dimensional being reaches down to Earth and pulls you out of the universe. You are then thrown back into the universe at a place and time of the being's choosing, and you are permitted to leave only after you have identified your surroundings. This process is repeated several times. Through a scientifically unexplainable miracle, you are able to survive in every one of the places that you find yourself. In each scenario below, identify your surroundings (and potentially your cosmic era) from among the choices given.
-You find yourself in a place that is unimaginably hot and dense. A rapidly changing gravitational field randomly warps space and time. Gripped by these huge fluctuations, you notice that there is but a single, unified force governing the universe. 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.

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