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

2. What kind of probability must this universe generate to produce a macroscopic time loop?

3. What are the size of biological brains limited by?

4. As the brain increases in size, what may become slower as it grows more complex?

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

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

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

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

5. What is the Schrodinger equation?

6. How would black hole radiation occur?

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

8. What are wormholes?

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

10. How does Hawking begin Chapter Four?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hawking's extensive research of black holes has provided us with informative clues for how black holes might actually work. Write an essay that uses Hawking's research to formulate a summary of our knowledge of black holes before and after Hawking's scientific work.

Essay Topic 2

Hawking states that the human race must be able to better itself since it will be dealing with an "increasingly complex world." Write an essay that supports or negates this argument. Be sure to include data from Chapters Five, Six, or Seven and at least two other supporting examples from your own research.

Essay Topic 3

Discussing the future is very prevalent throughout Hawking's book. Write an essay that focuses on two key anxieties and two hopes that Hawking, another scientist, or you, have, for the future of humanity's development, whether it be biological or electronic.

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