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Adventure One Shot
Adventure One Shot
Ans: 1. False
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. True
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NCERT Question Answer
II. Briefly explain the following statements from the text.
1. “You neither travelled to the past nor the future. You were in the present
experiencing a different world.”
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3. Gangadharpant could not help comparing the country he knew what he was witnessing
around him.
Ans: Gangadharpant Gaitonde had witnessed different facts of history which were the
decline of Marathas and British rule. But here in a different world, the reality was different.
Marathas had won the Battle of Panipat and there was no slavery under the white man.
India was free and here people had self-respect. When he compared two different facts of
the same country, he liked this different version of India more.
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Ans: The lack of determinism means the inability of the scientist to know where
the electron would move. Quantum theory means in physics, it can be measured
how the energy is produced and in what direction electrons may move. This
happened when Professor saw two different sets of history in the case of the
Battle of Panipat. In one reality, Marathas had won the war and in other, they had
lost the battle. The same happened in the case of the Battle of Waterloo.
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Ans: Professor Gaitonde before the collision with the truck was thinking about
catastrophe theory and its role in the war. He was wondering what might happen
if the result was different in the Battle of Panipat. When he hit the truck, the
neurons in his brain made the transition. This was explained by Rajendra to the
professor when he failed to understand why only he made the transition.
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NCERT Question Answer
Why do you think Professor Gaitonde decided never to preside over meetings again?
Ans: When in a different world, the professor noticed the empty presidential chair on
the stage in the ongoing lecture. Later when he started talking on the mike , the
audience was not ready to listen to him. They threw many objects at him and asked
him to move aside. They physically lifted him from the stage. Such experiences
prompted Professor to never preside over meetings again.
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