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

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

3. What kind of energy density might an advanced civilization be able to create?
(a) An energy density infinite on a level ground.
(b) An energy density finite on a time boundary.
(c) An energy density infinite on a spatial boundary.
(d) An energy density finite on a spatial plane.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of evolution is described as random?

2. How can half-determinism be preserved in relation to black holes?

3. What will be preserved if this equation determines the wave function?

4. How many books a year are estimated to be published?

5. What kind of philosophy do black holes have?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are wormholes?

3. What did the physicist John Wheeler mean when he said, "a black hole has no hair"?

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

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

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

7. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

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

9. What is the Schrodinger equation?

10. What does Hawking think about the possible technological level of extraterrestrials?

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