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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 is one hundred thousand times faster than evolution?
2. What would a civilization have to do to build a time machine?
3. What final state does Hawking wonder if humanity will ever reach?
4. What kind of energy density might an advanced civilization be able to create?
5. What kind of fluctuations do we have to consider to answer whether or not time travel is possible?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does it mean for Hawking to think one can "move" positive vacuum energy?
2. What does Hawking believe black holes radiate?
3. How do cosmic strings relate to space-time?
4. What is the grandfather paradox?
5. What does Hawking think he can prove about space-time paths?
6. What does much of the possibility of time travel depend upon?
7. What might p-branes be able to predict?
8. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?
9. What is the Schrodinger equation?
10. What are three of the things Hawking declares have increased exponentially, doubling every forty years of less?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are zero point fluctuations and what serious effects do they have on the quantum theory of gravity? Be sure to discuss Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga's work with zero point fluctuations.
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
Hawking uses the word "deterministic" quite a bit in Chapter Four. Identify what determinism means in this context, and how it relates to the universe. Then, summarize and analyze the controversy over whether or not the universe is deterministic and what this might entail.
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