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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. Laplace, at the beginning of the 19th century, postulated what idea?

2. What does the P stand for in combinations of operations?

3. Hawking's model of the universe says the universe will end how?

4. Even empty space is filled with what?

5. Mathematics is the language of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Hawking considers Galileo to be what?

2. Einstein preferred what over the fleeting nature of politics?

3. What is Einstein's general theory of relativity's famous equation?

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

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

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

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

8. What is, according to the book, the most recent attempt to find a complete unified theory?

9. String theory implies what about other dimensions?

10. What is one theory about what happens when particles match up with their anti-particles on the event horizon of a black hole?

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

What do the arrows of time symbolize? What are their purposes? Which one is most important in our universe? Which one would Hawking say is most important? Why? Please use the text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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