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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. How is the following quote finished: "The human race needs to improve its mental and physical qualities to deal with an...?"
(a) Intuitive and diverse world.
(b) Interesting and diversive world.
(c) Increasingly complex world.
(d) Increasingly simple world.

2. When particles hit p-branes, what are produced?
(a) Extra, multi-dimensional branes.
(b) Miniature explosions.
(c) Nothing is produced.
(d) Time bombs.

3. What does the p-brane model show about information?
(a) Information can be channeled through bell curves and wave functions.
(b) Information will be captured in the p-brane waves' wave functions.
(c) Information will escape a bit at a time through waves.
(d) Information cannot be captured.

4. What does Hawking think black holes radiate?
(a) Energy.
(b) Sound.
(c) Light.
(d) Heat.

5. What is determinism threatened by?
(a) Hartford supertheory.
(b) Heisenberg uncertainty.
(c) Magical Realism.
(d) Walter's metaphysical drive.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was absolute time overthrown as an idea?

2. What would a civilization have to do to build a time machine?

3. What famous quote is attributed to physicist John Wheeler?

4. What is the name of Hawking's conjecture about the laws of physics and macroscopic time travel?

5. What can p-branes absorb?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Hawking believe black holes radiate?

3. What is a time travel "horizon"?

4. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

5. How does Hawking begin Chapter Four?

6. What will happen as brains increase in size?

7. What partially restores determinism and why?

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

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

10. What is the grandfather paradox?

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