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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can half-determinism be preserved in relation to black holes?
(a) If Einstein's theory of general relativity is true.
(b) If subatomic travel is curved.
(c) If space-time is directed by Planck lengths.
(d) If Strominger and Vafa's 1996 postulation is true.

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

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

4. What kind of theory do we not have yet that is essential to figuring out time travel?
(a) Simmon's spacetime theory.
(b) Feynmann's historical theory.
(c) Gravitational theory.
(d) Quantum gravity theory.

5. What does Hawking explain particles do not have?
(a) Well-defined positions or velocities.
(b) Molecular shapes.
(c) Round-bodied physics.
(d) Easily-shaped positions.

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

7. What kind of energy density might an advanced civilization be able to create?
(a) An energy density infinite on a level ground.
(b) An energy density finite on a time boundary.
(c) An energy density infinite on a spatial boundary.
(d) An energy density finite on a spatial plane.

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

14. What would happen if energy escaped the black hole over time?
(a) Its heat would escape as well.
(b) Its temperature would rise.
(c) Its fragrance would emit.
(d) Its light would fragment.

15. What are wormholes?
(a) Holes between which space and time travel.
(b) Molecules of open space.
(c) Tubes of spacetime that connect different regions of space and time.
(d) Units of spacetime that connect similar regions of space and time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hawking say extraterrestrials might be like?

2. What final state does Hawking wonder if humanity will ever reach?

3. What is one hundred thousand times faster than evolution?

4. What are cosmic strings?

5. In what realm of physics is it important to consider the Schrodinger equation?

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