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

2. What will create great problems for unimproved humans?
(a) Moralistic contrivances.
(b) Genetic engineering.
(c) Genetic malfunctions.
(d) Molecular physics.

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

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

5. What popular sci-fi show does Hawking refer to when discussing its differences with humanity in a millennium?
(a) Doctor Who.
(b) Star Wars.
(c) Star Trek.
(d) Torchwood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Schrodinger equations assume?

2. What does Hawking say extraterrestrials might be like?

3. What final state does Hawking wonder if humanity will ever reach?

4. As the brain increases in size, what may become slower as it grows more complex?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hawking claim might happen if children could gestate outside the womb?

2. What is the grandfather paradox?

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

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

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

6. What is the Schrodinger equation?

7. What are wormholes?

8. What partially restores determinism and why?

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

10. How many books are published a year, and what does Hawking have to say about the good ones?

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