According to the passage which of the following questions mutants asked to themselves and tried to answer:
I. Who created the Universe?
II. Why did somebody create the Universe?
III. How was the Universe created?
IV. What stuff underlay in the innermost layer all the variety of creation?
III and IV only
The author has not touched upon the ‘Who’ questions. Physicist is not concerned with this question. They are also not concerned with the purpose of the creation. The examination of the purpose behind the manifest real world is one of the subject matters of philosophical quest of mankind. Thus, (I) and (II) are easily ruled out.
The author has clearly posited that physicists have been curious about how the Universe was created and the other question that stirred their mind and curiosity was an investigation into the discovery of the smallest fundamental elements of matter that makes the bewildering variety of things that were see. Hence(C).