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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What laws might allow space-time to warp to allow a spaceship to travel through the past?
(a) The laws of physics.
(b) The laws of aerodynamics.
(c) The laws of geometry.
(d) The laws of calculus.

2. What kind of fluctuations do we have to consider to answer whether or not time travel is possible?
(a) Geological fluctuations.
(b) Spacetime fluctuations.
(c) Quantum fluctuations.
(d) Spatial fluctuations.

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

4. How many books a year are estimated to be published?
(a) Four hundred thousand books.
(b) One thousand books.
(c) Three hundred thousand books.
(d) Two hundred thousand books.

5. What paradox does time travel generate?
(a) The grandfather paradox.
(b) The light year paradox.
(c) The grandmother paradox.
(d) The snooze button paradox.

6. What do cosmic strings allow space-time to do?
(a) Curve around them.
(b) Push them closer together.
(c) Separate them.
(d) Push them apart.

7. What does Hawking think black holes radiate?
(a) Energy.
(b) Sound.
(c) Heat.
(d) Light.

8. What is a practical limit on the design of faster computers?
(a) The speed of gravity.
(b) The speed of light.
(c) The weight of gravity.
(d) The acceleration of mass.

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

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

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

12. What kind of advanced development does Hawking predict for humanity?
(a) Social development.
(b) Weapon development.
(c) Biological and electronic development.
(d) Religious development.

13. What do the Schrodinger equations assume?
(a) That time runs smoothly everywhere.
(b) That speed is a constant.
(c) That force is a product of gravity.
(d) That motion is inverse to acceleration.

14. What is determinism threatened by?
(a) Magical Realism.
(b) Hartford supertheory.
(c) Walter's metaphysical drive.
(d) Heisenberg uncertainty.

15. What kind of explanation does Hawking give for how it might be possible to travel through time?
(a) General.
(b) Superficial.
(c) Blanket statement.
(d) Complex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hawking think one can do to positive vacuum energy?

2. What are wormholes?

3. What does Hawking say might happen if humans don't destroy themselves?

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

5. How does Hawking state particle states be represented?

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