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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 have serious effects on a quantum theory of gravity?
(a) Third state fluctuations.
(b) Fourth state fluctuations.
(c) Ground state fluctuations.
(d) Second state fluctuations.

2. What would happen if energy escaped the black hole over time?
(a) Its heat would escape as well.
(b) Its temperature would rise.
(c) Its light would fragment.
(d) Its fragrance would emit.

3. What can quantum theory represent?
(a) The dimensions of spacetime.
(b) The model of a timewarp.
(c) The shaping of space and time.
(d) The curves of space and time.

4. What does Hawking say extraterrestrials might be like?
(a) Not very bright.
(b) Very primitive or very advanced.
(c) Like humans.
(d) Easy to get along with.

5. According to Popper, what happens if positivism is true?
(a) We cannot believe in time.
(b) We lose all negativity.
(c) We cannot say what space is.
(d) We cannot say what time is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who believed they could interpret General Relativity so time had an infinite past and an infinite future?

2. When were strings regarded as insufficient?

3. What will be preserved if this equation determines the wave function?

4. What is one reason Hawking takes multiple dimensions seriously?

5. What is one hundred thousand times faster than evolution?

(see the answer key)

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