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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 sort of medal did Jacques Benveniste win form CNRS, which is one of the most prestigious scientific honors he could win in France?

2. Where was the article published that influenced Helmut Schmidt as a student?

3. What is the term that means a disturbance which shows that zero-point fluctuations cause electrons to move in their orbits?

4. Dennis Gabor won the Nobel Prize in the 1940's for his discovery of _____ in his quest to produce a microscope powerful enough to see an atom.

5. _____ claimed that the weaker the solution, the more powerful its effect.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the theory of Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship?

2. What happened on the way to Cone Crater?

3. What are microtubules? What do they do?

4. How was Brenda Dunne a counterpoint to Robert Jahn, according to the author?

5. What does the author say could explain why acupuncture works?

6. What did President Nixon urge Americans to do to stave off some of the effects of the oil crisis?

7. Who was Jean Fourier? What influence did his work have on Dennis Gabor?

8. What was Louis de Broglie's thought experiment that carried quantum theory to its logical conclusion?

9. What is renormalization, and where is it used?

10. How do geneticists look at cell differentiation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why the author states that gravity is the most mysterious and vexatious of physical forces. How does Einstein fit into the study of gravity? Andrei Sakharov?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Karl Pribram's studies on brain activity. How did the metaphor of the hologram apply to his findings?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the conclusions Elisabeth Targ came to regarding the type of healers involved in her experiments. What was the role of intent? What kind of healers did she test?

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