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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 supersymmetry imply?
(a) That strings have a spin property.
(b) That gamma rays have a spin property.
(c) That particles had a spin property.
(d) That molecules have a spin property.

2. What can one not curve space without also curving?
(a) Functions.
(b) Time.
(c) Gravity.
(d) Spacetime.

3. How is the following quote finished: "The human race needs to improve its mental and physical qualities to deal with an...?"
(a) Increasingly simple world.
(b) Interesting and diversive world.
(c) Intuitive and diverse world.
(d) Increasingly complex world.

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

5. What did the philosopher Immanuel Kant worry about concerning time and Newton's model?
(a) This this implied time was finite.
(b) That this implied time was infinite.
(c) That Newton's model was too irrelevant.
(d) That Newton's model was disproportionate.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hawking describe himself?

2. What partially restores determinism as a view?

3. What does the Schrodinger equation specify?

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

5. As the brain increases in size, what may become slower as it grows more complex?

(see the answer key)

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