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

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

3. 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) Increasingly complex world.
(c) Increasingly simple world.
(d) Interesting and diversive world.

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

5. What can p-branes absorb?
(a) Stars.
(b) Particles.
(c) Thought.
(d) Shape.

Short Answer Questions

1. What equation will be able to determine the wave function for information?

2. What does Hawking think one can do to positive vacuum energy?

3. What kind of theory do we not have yet that is essential to figuring out time travel?

4. What made DNA obsolete as the only source of information about humans?

5. How do most discussions of time travel begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is a time travel "horizon"?

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

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

6. What is the grandfather paradox?

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

8. What partially restores determinism and why?

9. What does Hawking believe black holes radiate?

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

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