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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. What is the purpose of an arrow of time?

2. If Hawking's model of the universe is used, black holes do what with their matter?

3. What church panel was Galileo brought before?

4. What is one thing particles do when they enter a black hole?

5. An open string is defined as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Hawking considers Galileo to be what?

2. String theory implies what about other dimensions?

3. Hawking says that when the universe loses all order, what will happen with life?

4. If quantum mechanics is used, then the universe has always done what?

5. What is ironic about Einstein's involvement in U.S. politics?

6. Why did the Catholic church demand that Galileo stop writing about Copernican theory?

7. Addressing the question of why the universe exists was once the job of philosophers, but now is not done because of what reason?

8. What does a weak form of the anthropic principle hold for the view of the universe?

9. What is the estimated concentration of black holes?

10. According to Hawking, people are naturally curious about what?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss each of the dimensions of the universe and their effect on humanity. Use the text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Pick a scientist (Einstein, Galileo or Newton) and discuss, using examples from the book, that scientist's contributions to the view of the universe we hold today.

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