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Briefly explain the following statements from the text.

“You have passed through a fantastic experience: or more correctly, a catastrophic experience.”

You have passed through a fantastic experience: or more correctly, a catastrophic experience." Was told by Rajendra Deshpande to Professor Gaitonde that he passed through a very exciting experience. He told that we lived in a unique world, which had a unique history. Due to the accident, Gangadhar Pant's mind jumped on to another world, which was unrealistic. In that world, history took a different outlook as Marathas won the Battle of Panipat. Rajendra explained this through catastrophic theory, according to which reality has many misinterpretations.


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Tick the statements that are true.

1. The story is an account of real events.


2. The story hinges on a particular historical event.


3. Rajendra Deshpande was a historian.


4. The places mentioned in the story are all imaginary.


5. The story tries to relate history to science.

 2

Briefly explain the following statements from the text.

“You neither travelled to the past nor the future. You were inthe present experiencing a different world.”

 2

Briefly explain the following statements from the text.

Gangadharpant could not help comparing the country he knew with what he was witnessing around him.

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Briefly explain the following statements from the text.

“The lack of determinism in quantum theory!”