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

2. What does Hawking think one can do to positive vacuum energy?
(a) Ration it.
(b) Divide it.
(c) Square it.
(d) Move it.

3. What partially restores determinism as a view?
(a) Quantum leaps.
(b) Quantum mechanics.
(c) Quantum hopes.
(d) Quantum curvature.

4. What kind of advanced development does Hawking predict for humanity?
(a) Social development.
(b) Biological and electronic development.
(c) Weapon development.
(d) Religious development.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How could time travel be possible?

2. What is one hundred thousand times faster than evolution?

3. In what kind of theory does matter behave according to quantum theory?

4. According to Hawking, what lies ahead in the future if no great disaster occurs?

5. What question does Hawking ask about extraterrestrials?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the main question concerning space-time, if one avoids philosophical discussion and focuses on the laws of physics?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the Schrodinger equation?

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

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

10. How would black hole radiation occur?

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