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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 can p-branes absorb?
(a) Shape.
(b) Thought.
(c) Stars.
(d) Particles.

2. What are wormholes?
(a) Units of spacetime that connect similar regions of space and time.
(b) Holes between which space and time travel.
(c) Molecules of open space.
(d) Tubes of spacetime that connect different regions of space and time.

3. What kind of energy density might an advanced civilization be able to create?
(a) An energy density infinite on a spatial boundary.
(b) An energy density finite on a spatial plane.
(c) An energy density infinite on a level ground.
(d) An energy density finite on a time boundary.

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

5. What will create great problems for unimproved humans?
(a) Molecular physics.
(b) Genetic malfunctions.
(c) Moralistic contrivances.
(d) Genetic engineering.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many galaxies are there?

2. What did the philosopher Immanuel Kant worry about concerning time and Newton's model?

3. What theories implied that supersymmetric field particles should have superpartners?

4. What kind of advanced development does Hawking predict for humanity?

5. What was everywhere when the universe was small?

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