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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What popular sci-fi show does Hawking refer to when discussing its differences with humanity in a millennium?
(a) Doctor Who.
(b) Star Trek.
(c) Torchwood.
(d) Star Wars.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What outline of cosmic strings is flat?
(a) Space-time outline.
(b) Spatial outline.
(c) Atomic outline.
(d) Wave outline.

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

10. Name two things that are doubling every forty years.
(a) Population and electricity consumption.
(b) Magnetism and force.
(c) Kohl states and energy acceleration.
(d) Energy density and population.

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

12. In what realm of physics is it important to consider the Schrodinger equation?
(a) Medical theoretical physics.
(b) Special theoretical physics.
(c) General theoretical physics.
(d) Contemporary theoretical physics.

13. What does the p-brane model show about information?
(a) Information will escape a bit at a time through waves.
(b) Information cannot be captured.
(c) Information will be captured in the p-brane waves' wave functions.
(d) Information can be channeled through bell curves and wave functions.

14. What would a civilization have to do to build a time machine?
(a) Surpass a time travel "horizon."
(b) Create a new cosmos.
(c) Generate enough heat to fuel the time machine's engines.
(d) Preclude the time travel paradox.

15. What are wormholes?
(a) Molecules of open space.
(b) Holes between which space and time travel.
(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 is one hundred thousand times faster than evolution?

2. What kind of philosophy do black holes have?

3. What kind of probability must this universe generate to produce a macroscopic time loop?

4. What kind of theory do we not have yet that is essential to figuring out time travel?

5. What kind of rotating Einstein universe does Hawking consider?

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