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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of rotating Einstein universe does Hawking consider?
(a) A precious universe.
(b) A hypothetical universe.
(c) A spinning universe.
(d) A realistic universe.

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

4. What are cosmic strings?
(a) Planes with narrowly etched furrows.
(b) Objects with length but tiny cross sections.
(c) Sections of space divided into tiny lines.
(d) Points between which waves connect.

5. How could time travel be possible?
(a) If wormholes existed.
(b) If time travel loops existed.
(c) If speed was inverse to time.
(d) If circular reasoning existed.

6. What will be preserved if this equation determines the wave function?
(a) Full determinism.
(b) One quarter-determinism.
(c) Half-determinism.
(d) Three quarter-determinism.

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

8. What can Penrose and Hawking's machinery help them study?
(a) Planetary rings and asteroids.
(b) Solar belts and singularities.
(c) Singularities and black holes.
(d) Black holes and the middle of the earth.

9. What famous quote is attributed to physicist John Wheeler?
(a) A black hole has two hairs.
(b) A black hole is wearing a wig.
(c) A black hole has no hair.
(d) A black hole is bald.

10. As the brain increases in size, what may become slower as it grows more complex?
(a) Computation.
(b) Informational weight.
(c) Informational value.
(d) Hard drives.

11. 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 need to ration food.
(d) Humans will find a way to live on the Earth forever.

12. How is the following quote finished: "The human race needs to improve its mental and physical qualities to deal with an...?"
(a) Interesting and diversive world.
(b) Intuitive and diverse world.
(c) Increasingly simple world.
(d) Increasingly complex world.

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

14. How does Hawking describe exploring the galaxy?
(a) Quick and methodical.
(b) Slow and easy.
(c) Fast and furious.
(d) Slow and tedious.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hawking compare to brains in the complexity versus speed trade-off?

2. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

3. What kind of fluctuations do we have to consider to answer whether or not time travel is possible?

4. When particles hit p-branes, what are produced?

5. When was absolute time overthrown as an idea?

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