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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 general relativity combine time with space to form?
(a) Five-dimensional warp speed.
(b) Two-dimensional planes.
(c) Three-dimensional physics.
(d) Four-dimensional space-time.

2. What was discovered in the 1970s that revealed a natural physical mechanism?
(a) A new sort of planck.
(b) A new sort of symmetry.
(c) A new sort of plane.
(d) A new sort of timewarp.

3. What will be preserved if this equation determines the wave function?
(a) One quarter-determinism.
(b) Three quarter-determinism.
(c) Full determinism.
(d) Half-determinism.

4. Dirac's discoveries were difficult to reconcile with what?
(a) Hawking's harangue on black hole theory.
(b) Popper's theory of demystification.
(c) Maxwell's unification of magnetism, energy, and electricity.
(d) Newton's law of gravity.

5. In what realm of physics is it important to consider the Schrodinger equation?
(a) Special theoretical physics.
(b) Contemporary theoretical physics.
(c) Medical theoretical physics.
(d) General theoretical physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does time have?

2. What will create great problems for unimproved humans?

3. How many books a year are estimated to be published?

4. What can one not curve space without also curving?

5. What does Hawking believe any good scientific theory should be rooted in?

(see the answer key)

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