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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 does the Schrodinger equation specify?

2. How can half-determinism be preserved in relation to black holes?

3. What laws might allow space-time to warp to allow a spaceship to travel through the past?

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

5. What popular sci-fi show does Hawking refer to when discussing its differences with humanity in a millennium?

Short Essay Questions

1. What partially restores determinism and why?

2. How would black hole radiation occur?

3. What is the Schrodinger equation?

4. How does Hawking begin Chapter Four?

5. What is the grandfather paradox?

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

7. What does Hawking believe black holes radiate?

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

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

10. At what rate is the computational power of computers increasing, and what computational rate might they actually reach?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Examine the relationship of Einstein's theory of relativity to Newton's law of gravity. Name three ways these theories are similar or differ. Be sure to explain the contemporary significance of each theory and their effects on modern scientific thought.

Essay Topic 3

Hawking's formulation of the Chronology Projection Conjecture is an important topic in Chapter Five. Write an essay that summarizes what the Chronology Projection Conjecture is, how it was formulated, and what its function is now.

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