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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Our Future?, Star Trek or Not?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does time have?
(a) A presence.
(b) A mark.
(c) A being.
(d) A shape.

2. What kind of evolution is described as random?
(a) Relational.
(b) Harmonious.
(c) Biological.
(d) Inter-species.

3. What is a p = 1 brane?
(a) A string.
(b) A plane.
(c) A cone.
(d) A box.

4. What does Hawking compare to brains in the complexity versus speed trade-off?
(a) Underground wires.
(b) Malfunctioning circuit boards.
(c) Electronic circuits.
(d) Sonic waves.

5. What theories implied that supersymmetric field particles should have superpartners?
(a) Supertheoric partner theories.
(b) Supergravity theories.
(c) Particle accelerator theories.
(d) Symmetric movement theories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

2. What is a p = 2 brane?

3. What do the Schrodinger equations assume?

4. What equation will be able to determine the wave function for information?

5. What does Hawking think black holes radiate?

(see the answer key)

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