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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. Why is the belief in God an enduring one?

2. How does Gleick see the universe?

3. DNA is made up of of how many different nucleotides?

4. What two disciplines of science were forced together by DNA?

5. What is the advantage of using quantum particles in the place of bits?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the "Library of Babel" that was described in a story by Jorge Luis Borges?

2. What has research shown about entangled particles and the transference of information?

3. What are examples of memes?

4. What makes a number "computable?"

5. What did psychologist George Miller discover about a person's ability to remember?

6. What did Dawkins attribute the belief in God to?

7. What fundamental problem is inherent in the observation of quantum particles?

8. What are major differences between Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Brittanica?

9. What did IBM research Charle Bennet write about "information" in the 1980s?

10. What was discovered through the study of thermodynamics about the movement of energy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did the telephone replace the telegraph as the most advanced form of communication? What advantages did the telephone have to the general public? Contrast the differences between the telephone an the telegraph.

Essay Topic 2

What is a random number? What makes a number computable? What were Gregory Chaitin's conclusions about the complexity of numbers?

Essay Topic 3

Explain why electricity opened up the field of communication? How did the electric telegraph function and why was it superior to the earlier French version? How did the telegraph impact global communications?

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