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

2. Why is it important that the sky is dark?
(a) It demonstrates that light hasn't reached every point in the universe.
(b) It demonstrates that the sky is more inclined to darker tones.
(c) It demonstrates that the universe must have a light switch.
(d) It demonstrates that the dark extends further than the light.

3. What is a p = 2 brane?
(a) A wall.
(b) A ladder.
(c) A surface.
(d) A geometrical unit.

4. What final state does Hawking wonder if humanity will ever reach?
(a) Science and technology.
(b) Geography and geology.
(c) Chemistry and physics.
(d) Ecology and biology.

5. Dirac's discoveries were difficult to reconcile with what?
(a) Maxwell's unification of magnetism, energy, and electricity.
(b) Popper's theory of demystification.
(c) Hawking's harangue on black hole theory.
(d) Newton's law of gravity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two things are considered capable of shaping space-time, according to Einstein?

2. How could this energy density be created?

3. What made DNA obsolete as the only source of information about humans?

4. What did Hawking and Hartle believe the universe may not have?

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

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