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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What are the size of biological brains limited by?
(a) Proteins.
(b) The womb.
(c) The genome.
(d) Animo Acids.
2. What final state does Hawking wonder if humanity will ever reach?
(a) Science and technology.
(b) Geography and geology.
(c) Chemistry and physics.
(d) Ecology and biology.
3. On what scale does Hawking think time travel occurs?
(a) An incredibly surface-level scale.
(b) An incredibly small scale.
(c) An incredibly dense scale.
(d) An incredibly low scale.
4. Where does one set of possibilities lie in relation to using the laws of physics to explore the galaxy?
(a) SNA.
(b) RNA.
(c) DNA.
(d) MNA.
5. When was absolute time overthrown as an idea?
(a) Over 100 years ago.
(b) The idea was never overthrown.
(c) Ten years ago.
(d) Fifty years ago.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Hawking say might happen if humans don't destroy themselves?
2. What laws might allow space-time to warp to allow a spaceship to travel through the past?
3. What may computers also have like human brains?
4. What popular sci-fi show does Hawking refer to when discussing its differences with humanity in a millennium?
5. What does the p-brane model show about information?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Hawking think he can prove about space-time paths?
2. What does much of the possibility of time travel depend upon?
3. What is a time travel "horizon"?
4. At what rate is the computational power of computers increasing, and what computational rate might they actually reach?
5. What does Hawking believe black holes radiate?
6. What might happen if we do not destroy ourselves?
7. How does Hawking begin Chapter Four?
8. What is the grandfather paradox?
9. What does Hawking think about the possible technological level of extraterrestrials?
10. What might p-branes be able to predict?
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