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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of theory do we not have yet that is essential to figuring out time travel?
(a) Gravitational theory.
(b) Simmon's spacetime theory.
(c) Feynmann's historical theory.
(d) Quantum gravity theory.

2. What are cosmic strings?
(a) Planes with narrowly etched furrows.
(b) Points between which waves connect.
(c) Sections of space divided into tiny lines.
(d) Objects with length but tiny cross sections.

3. How do most discussions of time travel begin?
(a) With perpendicular theorems.
(b) With longitudinal equations.
(c) With general relativity.
(d) With special relativity.

4. What famous quote is attributed to physicist John Wheeler?
(a) A black hole is bald.
(b) A black hole has two hairs.
(c) A black hole is wearing a wig.
(d) A black hole has no hair.

5. When was absolute time overthrown as an idea?
(a) Ten years ago.
(b) Over 100 years ago.
(c) The idea was never overthrown.
(d) Fifty years ago.

6. What paradox does time travel generate?
(a) The snooze button paradox.
(b) The grandfather paradox.
(c) The grandmother paradox.
(d) The light year paradox.

7. What may computers also have like human brains?
(a) Parallel processing.
(b) Computational processing.
(c) Multiple dimensions.
(d) Multiple energies.

8. According to Hawking, what lies ahead in the future if no great disaster occurs?
(a) Improving human morals.
(b) Improving the quality of life for all humans.
(c) Improving animal genetics.
(d) Improving human genetics.

9. What would a civilization have to do to build a time machine?
(a) Surpass a time travel "horizon."
(b) Generate enough heat to fuel the time machine's engines.
(c) Preclude the time travel paradox.
(d) Create a new cosmos.

10. How does Hawking describe himself?
(a) A positivist.
(b) A relationist.
(c) A negativist.
(d) An optimist.

11. What characteristic of black holes has been stated as never having been observed?
(a) Logic.
(b) Karma.
(c) Willpower.
(d) Radiation.

12. What do the Schrodinger equations assume?
(a) That speed is a constant.
(b) That time runs smoothly everywhere.
(c) That motion is inverse to acceleration.
(d) That force is a product of gravity.

13. How does Hawking state particle states be represented?
(a) With bell curves.
(b) With satellite functions.
(c) With wave functions.
(d) With light functions.

14. What does the Schrodinger equation specify?
(a) The rate at which satellites operate particle states.
(b) The rate at which light function changes with speed.
(c) The rate at which wave function changes with time.
(d) The rate at which bell curves change with motion.

15. What partially restores determinism as a view?
(a) Quantum curvature.
(b) Quantum mechanics.
(c) Quantum leaps.
(d) Quantum hopes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of probability must this universe generate to produce a macroscopic time loop?

2. What popular sci-fi show does Hawking refer to when discussing its differences with humanity in a millennium?

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

4. What do black holes absorb?

5. What laws might allow space-time to warp to allow a spaceship to travel through the past?

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