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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. For nearly all of history, what has moved forward?

2. What are singularities?

3. What question does Hawking ask about extraterrestrials?

4. What do cosmic strings allow space-time to do?

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 Hawking believe black holes radiate?

2. What final thought does Hawking have about Star Trek and humanity, in the closing of Chapter 6?

3. What partially restores determinism and why?

4. What might p-branes be able to predict?

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

6. What is the main question concerning space-time, if one avoids philosophical discussion and focuses on the laws of physics?

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

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

9. How do cosmic strings relate to space-time?

10. What does Hawking think about the possible technological level of extraterrestrials?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using Chapter One as an informative text, write an essay on the early life of Albert Einstein. This essay must mark three important events of Einstein's life from 1879 to 1905. Be sure to elaborate on how these three details are connected to Einstein's future involvement in the scientific community.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the ether theory. Explain why this theory fell apart and what Einstein's role was in its deconstruction. Be sure to include at least two reasons the ether theory became redundant and unnecessary.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the history of the theory of curved spaces. What is this theory's relationship to the idea of space-time? Cite two examples from Chapter One that identify key participants, events, or ideas related to this topic.

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