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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. How can one find black holes?

2. What can Penrose and Hawking's machinery help them study?

3. What are singularities?

4. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

5. What kind of advanced development does Hawking predict for humanity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Schrodinger equation?

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

3. What is a time travel "horizon"?

4. What is the grandfather paradox?

5. What are wormholes?

6. How would black hole radiation occur?

7. How does Hawking begin Chapter Four?

8. What will happen as brains increase in size?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are p-branes? What are the different levels of branes? What is the role of p-branes in supersymmetry? Answer the previous questions succinctly and be sure to explore Hawking's contributions to this field of study.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the history of the equation E = mc2. What is the significance of this equation? Be sure to include a description of the following terms: energy, mass, relativity, and the speed of light.

Essay Topic 3

Why is popular culture so enthralled by the relationship between mechanical devices and humans? Write an essay that seeks to explore the similarities and differences between computers and humans and why this either concerns or excites us.

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