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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. Where does one set of possibilities lie in relation to using the laws of physics to explore the galaxy?
(a) MNA.
(b) SNA.
(c) DNA.
(d) RNA.

2. How does Hawking state particle states be represented?
(a) With satellite functions.
(b) With wave functions.
(c) With light functions.
(d) With bell curves.

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

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

5. What are cosmic strings?
(a) Sections of space divided into tiny lines.
(b) Objects with length but tiny cross sections.
(c) Points between which waves connect.
(d) Planes with narrowly etched furrows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of explanation does Hawking give for how it might be possible to travel through time?

2. What do black holes absorb?

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

4. For nearly all of history, what has moved forward?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are wormholes?

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

5. What is the Schrodinger equation?

6. How do cosmic strings relate to space-time?

7. How would black hole radiation occur?

8. What partially restores determinism and why?

9. What final thought does Hawking have about Star Trek and humanity, in the closing of Chapter 6?

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

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