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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. When was absolute time overthrown as an idea?
(a) The idea was never overthrown.
(b) Fifty years ago.
(c) Over 100 years ago.
(d) Ten years ago.

2. How does Hawking state particle states be represented?
(a) With bell curves.
(b) With wave functions.
(c) With light functions.
(d) With satellite functions.

3. What can Einstein's General Relativity be combined with?
(a) Molecular geology.
(b) Multiple histories.
(c) Atomic philosophy.
(d) Quantum biology.

4. What does Hawking think is beneficial concerning matter?
(a) Mass is converted into matter from gravitational fields.
(b) Matter is converted into energy from periscopal fields.
(c) Matter is converted into weight.
(d) Energy is converted into matter from gravitational fields.

5. How is the following quote finished: "The human race needs to improve its mental and physical qualities to deal with an...?"
(a) Increasingly complex world.
(b) Intuitive and diverse world.
(c) Interesting and diversive world.
(d) Increasingly simple world.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does much of the possibility of time travel depend on?

3. Which project produced Fat Man and Little Boy?

4. What can quantum theory represent?

5. What equation will be able to determine the wave function for information?

(see the answer key)

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