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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 will be preserved if this equation determines the wave function?
(a) One quarter-determinism.
(b) Half-determinism.
(c) Full determinism.
(d) Three quarter-determinism.

2. What would a civilization have to do to build a time machine?
(a) Generate enough heat to fuel the time machine's engines.
(b) Surpass a time travel "horizon."
(c) Preclude the time travel paradox.
(d) Create a new cosmos.

3. Who developed quantum theory?
(a) Max Jeoff.
(b) Percy Max.
(c) Max Wurst.
(d) Max Planck.

4. What does Hawking resist believing in?
(a) Extra dimensions.
(b) Ten dimensions.
(c) One dimension.
(d) Never-ending dimensions.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many galaxies are there?

3. What did Penrose and Hawking demonstrate concerning General Relativity?

4. What may be a law of nature?

5. What does the p-brane model show about information?

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