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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 was discovered in the 1970s that revealed a natural physical mechanism?
(a) A new sort of planck.
(b) A new sort of timewarp.
(c) A new sort of plane.
(d) A new sort of symmetry.

2. What made DNA obsolete as the only source of information about humans?
(a) Song.
(b) Quantum theory.
(c) Culture.
(d) Language.

3. What outline of cosmic strings is flat?
(a) Atomic outline.
(b) Space-time outline.
(c) Spatial outline.
(d) Wave outline.

4. What does supersymmetry imply?
(a) That molecules have a spin property.
(b) That gamma rays have a spin property.
(c) That strings have a spin property.
(d) That particles had a spin property.

5. How can one find black holes?
(a) By seeking out the matter that revolves around finite space.
(b) By seeking out the matter that orbits around a visible object.
(c) By finding the mass of everything invisible.
(d) By finding matter that orbits around a seemingly invisible object.

Short Answer Questions

1. How could time travel be possible?

2. What partially restores determinism as a view?

3. What is Feynman's history idea called?

4. What does Hawking say extraterrestrials might be like?

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

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