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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What may be a law of nature?

2. What is a p = 1 brane?

3. Why is it important that the sky is dark?

4. What is one of the twentieth century's greatest discoveries?

5. According to Popper, what happens if positivism is true?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the contradiction of relativity to Newton's law of gravity.

2. What is the no boundary condition, and what does it imply?

3. What idea about the galaxies did Einstein never take seriously?

4. What does Hawking believe the possibility of intelligent beings' existence depends on?

5. Why can't we coherently ask why the universe is the way it is?

6. Describe imaginary time.

7. What is Hawking's view about mathematical models?

8. What paper did Einstein write with Grossman in 1913 and what happened in 1915 related to this same project?

9. How did the general relativity theory break down?

10. What was the bedrock of relativity theory, and what did it imply?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hawking discusses the concept of brane worlds at length. Since brane worlds are a very difficult and far-reaching topic, write an essay that seeks to succinctly summarize the concept of brane worlds and their relationship with humans.

Essay Topic 2

Using Chapter Seven as an informative text, write an essay on WIMPs. Be sure to properly define WIMPs, discuss their relationship with potential shadow brane worlds, and also analyze the lack of gamma radiation coming from black holes.

Essay Topic 3

Chapter Five provides a complex picture of the interconnections between space-time, the multiple history idea, and quantum theory. Write an essay that analyzes the relationship between these three concepts, and use at least two examples from Chapter Five that support your argument.

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