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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 do we need to describe what happens on the edge of the universe?
(a) Limited perceptions.
(b) Boundary conditions.
(c) Boundary laws.
(d) Finite structures.

2. In what kind of theory does matter behave according to quantum theory?
(a) Geometrical theory.
(b) Philosophical theory.
(c) Semiclassical theory.
(d) Special theory.

3. What are the size of biological brains limited by?
(a) Animo Acids.
(b) The womb.
(c) Proteins.
(d) The genome.

4. What are singularities?
(a) Timepieces of infinitely dense space.
(b) Time structures that appear infinitely small.
(c) Centers that appear finitely dense.
(d) Centers that appear infinitely small and dense.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what scale does Hawking think time travel occurs?

2. What will create great problems for unimproved humans?

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

4. What may the universe not have, given quantum mechanics?

5. What does TOE stand for?

(see the answer key)

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