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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 are the size of biological brains limited by?
(a) Proteins.
(b) The genome.
(c) The womb.
(d) Animo Acids.
2. 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 complex world.
(c) Intuitive and diverse world.
(d) Increasingly simple world.
3. How do most discussions of time travel begin?
(a) With perpendicular theorems.
(b) With general relativity.
(c) With special relativity.
(d) With longitudinal equations.
4. What will be preserved if this equation determines the wave function?
(a) One quarter-determinism.
(b) Half-determinism.
(c) Full determinism.
(d) Three quarter-determinism.
5. According to Hawking, what lies ahead in the future if no great disaster occurs?
(a) Improving human genetics.
(b) Improving animal genetics.
(c) Improving the quality of life for all humans.
(d) Improving human morals.
Short Answer Questions
1. What famous quote is attributed to physicist John Wheeler?
2. As the brain increases in size, what may become slower as it grows more complex?
3. What does the Schrodinger equation specify?
4. When particles hit p-branes, what are produced?
5. What popular sci-fi show does Hawking refer to when discussing its differences with humanity in a millennium?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Hawking think about the possible technological level of extraterrestrials?
2. What are wormholes?
3. What will happen as brains increase in size?
4. What might p-branes be able to predict?
5. What partially restores determinism and why?
6. What does Hawking think he can prove about space-time paths?
7. What is the grandfather paradox?
8. What are three of the things Hawking declares have increased exponentially, doubling every forty years of less?
9. How many books are published a year, and what does Hawking have to say about the good ones?
10. What is a time travel "horizon"?
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