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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. Who brought forth the idea that the earth and planets revolve around the sun?

2. When was the uncertainty principle developed?

3. Who created the idea that a star can collapse and become a black hole?

4. In what year did Stephen Hawking enter the Royal Society of London?

5. Black holes are similar to the singularity that existed before what event?

Short Essay Questions

1. The mathematical formulas that result from a scientific model of the universe must do what?

2. Why do scientists think that there is a black hole in the star system Cygnus X-1?

3. Why do physicists of Stephen Hawking's caliber not make assumptions about the nature of the universe?

4. What do religious explanations to fundamental questions of the universe reveal?

5. What determines whether a star can become a black hole?

6. Due to the influences of mass and energy, light does what?

7. In 1687 Newton published mathematical formulas that do what?

8. Light behaves in which two manners?

9. According to Carl Sagan, what prompts children to ask seemingly unanswerable questions?

10. What is the relationship between quantum mechanics and predictions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Based on your reading of the book, why does humanity try to understand the universe and what progress has humanity made in understanding it? Please support your answers with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Using what has been presented in the book, what concepts would string theory have to embody in order to be considered the theory that unites the general theory of relativity with quantum mechanics? What issues would string theory have to overcome? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Hawking often compares and contrasts science and God. Using examples from the text: What is the purpose of comparing and contrasting science and God?

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