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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. How can half-determinism be preserved in relation to black holes?

2. What made DNA obsolete as the only source of information about humans?

3. What is doubling its computational power every eighteen months?

4. What is one hundred thousand times faster than evolution?

5. What will be preserved if this equation determines the wave function?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are three of the things Hawking declares have increased exponentially, doubling every forty years of less?

2. What is a time travel "horizon"?

3. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

4. What does Hawking believe black holes radiate?

5. What will happen as brains increase in size?

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

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

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

9. How does Hawking begin Chapter Four?

10. How would black hole radiation occur?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hawking discusses the concept of brane worlds at length. Since brane worlds are a very difficult and far-reaching topic, write an essay that seeks to succinctly summarize the concept of brane worlds and their relationship with humans.

Essay Topic 2

Discussing the future is very prevalent throughout Hawking's book. Write an essay that focuses on two key anxieties and two hopes that Hawking, another scientist, or you, have, for the future of humanity's development, whether it be biological or electronic.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that answers the following questions: What is M-theory? What is its relationship to various string models? What does Hawking believe about M-theory? The essay must include at least two supporting evidences from the book, and one example from an outside text.

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