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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 does Hawking state particle states be represented?

2. What is doubling its computational power every eighteen months?

3. What is one hundred thousand times faster than evolution?

4. What do the Schrodinger equations assume?

5. What kind of energy density might an advanced civilization be able to create?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hawking begin Chapter Four?

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

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

4. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

5. What partially restores determinism and why?

6. What is a time travel "horizon"?

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

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

9. What did the physicist John Wheeler mean when he said, "a black hole has no hair"?

10. How would black hole radiation occur?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Expound on Einstein's involvement, direct or indirect, in WWII. Be sure to discuss the relationship between scientific discovery and practical use. Analyze The Manhattan Project as an example of science and its utilization.

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