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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Stephen Hawking has what disease?

2. For satellites orbiting the earth, time does what in relation to the ground of the earth?

3. What does a particle with 0 spin look like?

4. Stars without enough mass to become a black hole can become what?

5. How many miles does light travel in one earth year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship between quantum mechanics and predictions?

2. The mathematical formulas that result from a scientific model of the universe must do what?

3. Why do physicists of Stephen Hawking's caliber not make assumptions about the nature of the universe?

4. How did Einstein observe Brownian motion?

5. When looking at the sky on a clear night what do you see and how far away is it?

6. What do religious explanations to fundamental questions of the universe reveal?

7. Why might our present day ways of thinking about the universe seem ridiculous in the future?

8. In 1687 Newton published mathematical formulas that do what?

9. What was the Ancient Greek view of the universe?

10. What happens at the event horizon of a black hole?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Black holes exist in math, but not in observational reality. What does this mean for the evolution of ideas that scientists accept the idea of a new creation purely by seeing the math work? What does Hawking say about the evolution of ideas without observational proof? Please use the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Using the book to support your answer, answer the following question: Was there a beginning of time and will there be an end?

Essay Topic 3

Hawking says there are three possibilities for the unification of physics theory. What are they? Which one will prevail? Support your answer with examples from the text.

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