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

2. What is doubling its computational power every eighteen months?
(a) Alarm.
(b) Cellphone.
(c) Satellite.
(d) Computer.

3. What final state does Hawking wonder if humanity will ever reach?
(a) Chemistry and physics.
(b) Science and technology.
(c) Geography and geology.
(d) Ecology and biology.

4. How could this energy density be created?
(a) By creating new weights for each energy density.
(b) By dividing the molecules into fragments and then reassembling them.
(c) By separating virtual particles from real particles.
(d) By taking out virtual particles in a closed loop.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of evolution is described as random?

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

3. What does much of the possibility of time travel depend on?

4. What does Hawking think one can do to positive vacuum energy?

5. What famous quote is attributed to physicist John Wheeler?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Schrodinger equation?

2. How would black hole radiation occur?

3. What does Hawking believe black holes radiate?

4. What does much of the possibility of time travel depend upon?

5. How do cosmic strings relate to space-time?

6. What is the main question concerning space-time, if one avoids philosophical discussion and focuses on the laws of physics?

7. What does Hawking think he can prove about space-time paths?

8. How many books are published a year, and what does Hawking have to say about the good ones?

9. What does it mean for Hawking to think one can "move" positive vacuum energy?

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

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