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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For nearly all of history, what has moved forward?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Spacetime.
(c) The Earth.
(d) Energy.

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

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

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

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

7. What can p-branes absorb?
(a) Thought.
(b) Particles.
(c) Shape.
(d) Stars.

8. 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.

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

10. What will create great problems for unimproved humans?
(a) Molecular physics.
(b) Genetic malfunctions.
(c) Moralistic contrivances.
(d) Genetic engineering.

11. On what scale does Hawking think time travel occurs?
(a) An incredibly surface-level scale.
(b) An incredibly dense scale.
(c) An incredibly low scale.
(d) An incredibly small scale.

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

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

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

15. What kind of philosophy do black holes have?
(a) A present philosophy.
(b) A contemporary philosophy.
(c) An escape philosophy.
(d) A mature philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Feynman's history idea called?

2. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

3. What are cosmic strings?

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

5. What does Hawking think black holes radiate?

(see the answer keys)

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