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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Schrodinger equation specify?
(a) The rate at which bell curves change with motion.
(b) The rate at which satellites operate particle states.
(c) The rate at which wave function changes with time.
(d) The rate at which light function changes with speed.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Hawking compare to brains in the complexity versus speed trade-off?
(a) Electronic circuits.
(b) Underground wires.
(c) Malfunctioning circuit boards.
(d) Sonic waves.

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

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

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

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

13. 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) Increasingly simple world.
(c) Intuitive and diverse world.
(d) Increasingly complex world.

14. What can p-branes predict?
(a) The rates of emission that the molecules emit.
(b) The rates of consumption that the real-particle pair indicates.
(c) The rates of emission that the virtual-particle pair indicates.
(d) The rates of condensation that the virtual-particle trio indicates.

15. What question does Hawking ask about extraterrestrials?
(a) If they are real, why haven't we discovered them?
(b) If they were smart, why haven't they contacted us?
(c) If they were out there, why would they want to contact us?
(d) If they were advanced, why haven't they spread across the galaxy?

Short Answer Questions

1. What are cosmic strings?

2. What does the p-brane model show about information?

3. What paradox does time travel generate?

4. What are the size of biological brains limited by?

5. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

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