LSAT 159 | Section 2 | Reading Comprehension: Q16

RC Question 16 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: The passage indicates which one of the following …

DISCUSSION: We’re looking for a statement that’s directly stated or clearly implied in the passage. You can’t really prephrase these types of questions, so it’s important to keep a mental passage summary.

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1. CORRECT. The passage states that the vacuum roils with virtual particles, showing it’s not empty (paragraph 3).
2. It only says that astronomers discovered expansion in 1929. It doesn’t describe earlier beliefs about size.
3. Supernovas are used as distance markers, not causes of expansion.
4. Einstein proposed a cosmological constant, not dark energy as the modern theory describes it.
5. The passage doesn’t discuss how virtual particles relate to relativity.