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

2. What was everywhere when the universe was small?
(a) Atomic effects.
(b) Quantum effects.
(c) Molecular effects.
(d) Particle effects.

3. What is one hundred thousand times faster than evolution?
(a) The increase in population.
(b) The increase in mass growth.
(c) The increase in energy states.
(d) The increase in information.

4. What kind of advanced development does Hawking predict for humanity?
(a) Social development.
(b) Weapon development.
(c) Biological and electronic development.
(d) Religious development.

5. Who were unconvinced by the ideas of an infinite past and future?
(a) Shalob and Khalatnikov.
(b) Popper and Newkowitz.
(c) Lifshitz and Hawking.
(d) Penrose and Hawking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hawking resist believing in?

2. What did this theory of curved spaces help Einstein and Marcel Grossman to do?

3. Whom did Einstein later marry after his first marriage fell apart?

4. What can Penrose and Hawking's machinery help them study?

5. What can we not coherently ask about the way the universe is?

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