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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What characteristic of black holes has been stated as never having been observed?
(a) Willpower.
(b) Logic.
(c) Karma.
(d) Radiation.

2. What equation will be able to determine the wave function for information?
(a) Schrodinger.
(b) Heisenberg.
(c) Popper.
(d) Rossinger.

3. What is the name of Hawking's conjecture about the laws of physics and macroscopic time travel?
(a) The Timeline Protection Conjecture.
(b) The Chronology Protection Conjecture.
(c) The Theoretical Projection Conjecture.
(d) The Chronological Spacetime Conjecture.

4. What does Hawking say extraterrestrials might be like?
(a) Easy to get along with.
(b) Not very bright.
(c) Like humans.
(d) Very primitive or very advanced.

5. How do most discussions of time travel begin?
(a) With perpendicular theorems.
(b) With general relativity.
(c) With longitudinal equations.
(d) With special relativity.

6. What does Hawking say might happen if humans don't destroy themselves?
(a) Humans will need to procreate rapidly.
(b) Humans will spread to other planets.
(c) Humans will find a way to live on the Earth forever.
(d) Humans will need to ration food.

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

8. What does much of the possibility of time travel depend on?
(a) Finding contemporary spaces of positive energy.
(b) Finding infinite spaces of negative energy.
(c) Finding contemporary spaces of negative energy.
(d) Finding local spaces of negative energy.

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

10. Where does one set of possibilities lie in relation to using the laws of physics to explore the galaxy?
(a) SNA.
(b) DNA.
(c) RNA.
(d) MNA.

11. What may computers also have like human brains?
(a) Multiple energies.
(b) Computational processing.
(c) Parallel processing.
(d) Multiple dimensions.

12. What kind of evolution is described as random?
(a) Inter-species.
(b) Biological.
(c) Relational.
(d) Harmonious.

13. What do black holes absorb?
(a) Heat.
(b) Weight.
(c) Mass.
(d) Energy.

14. What partially restores determinism as a view?
(a) Quantum hopes.
(b) Quantum mechanics.
(c) Quantum leaps.
(d) Quantum curvature.

15. What is doubling its computational power every eighteen months?
(a) Satellite.
(b) Alarm.
(c) Computer.
(d) Cellphone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are singularities?

2. What are the size of biological brains limited by?

3. What kind of explanation does Hawking give for how it might be possible to travel through time?

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

5. What would happen if energy escaped the black hole over time?

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