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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Predicting the Future.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the p-brane model show about information?
(a) Information will escape a bit at a time through waves.
(b) Information can be channeled through bell curves and wave functions.
(c) Information will be captured in the p-brane waves' wave functions.
(d) Information cannot be captured.

2. By what year was Einstein famous?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1899.

3. Who produced the theory about curved spaces?
(a) Harvey Dent.
(b) Professor Marx.
(c) Georg Reimann.
(d) George Markowitz.

4. What do we need to describe what happens on the edge of the universe?
(a) Limited perceptions.
(b) Finite structures.
(c) Boundary laws.
(d) Boundary conditions.

5. What did nineteenth century scientists believe space was pervaded by?
(a) Asteroids.
(b) Time.
(c) Methane.
(d) Ether.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Newton's model suggest about time and space?

2. What are singularities?

3. What is determinism threatened by?

4. What is vacuum energy's force inverse to?

5. What does Hawking believe we should try to understand?

(see the answer key)

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