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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Predicting the Future.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hawking think black holes radiate?
(a) Sound.
(b) Light.
(c) Energy.
(d) Heat.

2. What will be preserved if this equation determines the wave function?
(a) Full determinism.
(b) Half-determinism.
(c) Three quarter-determinism.
(d) One quarter-determinism.

3. What do we need to describe what happens on the edge of the universe?
(a) Limited perceptions.
(b) Boundary laws.
(c) Finite structures.
(d) Boundary conditions.

4. What is thought to expand at an accelerating rate in our universe?
(a) Reach.
(b) Matter.
(c) Scope.
(d) Light.

5. Who later showed that general relativity implied the Big Bang?
(a) Stephen Hawking and Matthew Williams.
(b) Allen Walton and Roger Penrose.
(c) Allen Walton and Zion Greenlee.
(d) Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hawking explain particles do not have?

2. Where did Einstein move in 1914?

3. If there is a low amount of matter in the universe what will happen?

4. What does the p-brane model show about information?

5. According to Popper, what happens if positivism is true?

(see the answer key)

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