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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 kind of rotating Einstein universe does Hawking consider?
(a) A realistic universe.
(b) A precious universe.
(c) A spinning universe.
(d) A hypothetical universe.

2. What famous quote is attributed to physicist John Wheeler?
(a) A black hole is wearing a wig.
(b) A black hole has no hair.
(c) A black hole is bald.
(d) A black hole has two hairs.

3. What is Feynman's history idea called?
(a) Multiple history idea.
(b) Imaginary history idea.
(c) Fictional history idea.
(d) Singular history idea.

4. How can one find black holes?
(a) By finding the mass of everything invisible.
(b) By seeking out the matter that orbits around a visible object.
(c) By finding matter that orbits around a seemingly invisible object.
(d) By seeking out the matter that revolves around finite space.

5. What kind of theory do we not have yet that is essential to figuring out time travel?
(a) Feynmann's historical theory.
(b) Quantum gravity theory.
(c) Gravitational theory.
(d) Simmon's spacetime theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a practical limit on the design of faster computers?

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

3. What barrier could wormholes break?

4. What kind of evolution is described as random?

5. What will create great problems for unimproved humans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How would black hole radiation occur?

7. What will happen as brains increase in size?

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

9. What is the grandfather paradox?

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

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