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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of explanation does Hawking give for how it might be possible to travel through time?
(a) Complex.
(b) General.
(c) Superficial.
(d) Blanket statement.

2. What may computers also have like human brains?
(a) Computational processing.
(b) Multiple dimensions.
(c) Parallel processing.
(d) Multiple energies.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

3. What can p-branes absorb?

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

5. What does Hawking explain particles do not have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hawking believe black holes radiate?

2. What does much of the possibility of time travel depend upon?

3. What are three of the things Hawking declares have increased exponentially, doubling every forty years of less?

4. What is the main question concerning space-time, if one avoids philosophical discussion and focuses on the laws of physics?

5. What does it mean for Hawking to think one can "move" positive vacuum energy?

6. What does Hawking think he can prove about space-time paths?

7. How does Hawking begin Chapter Four?

8. At what rate is the computational power of computers increasing, and what computational rate might they actually reach?

9. What might happen if we do not destroy ourselves?

10. What might p-branes be able to predict?

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