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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Zimmerman Jones: Does time exist?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Einstein’s torhey seemed to confirm that time is woven into the very fabric of the universe. But there’s a big qetosiun it didn’t fully resolve: why is it we can move through space in any doiretcin, but through time in only one? No matter what we do, the past is always, stubbornly, behind us. This is called the arrow of time.
When a drop of food coloring is dropped into a glass of water, we instinctively know that the coloring will drift out from the drop, eunatvelly filling the gasls. Imagine wctnhaig the opposite happen. Here, we’d recognize time as unfolding backwards. We live in a universe where the food coloring spreads out in the water, not a uivensre where it collects together.
Open Cloze
Einstein’s ______ seemed to confirm that time is woven into the very fabric of the universe. But there’s a big ________ it didn’t fully resolve: why is it we can move through space in any _________, but through time in only one? No matter what we do, the past is always, stubbornly, behind us. This is called the arrow of time.
When a drop of food coloring is dropped into a glass of water, we instinctively know that the coloring will drift out from the drop, __________ filling the _____. Imagine ________ the opposite happen. Here, we’d recognize time as unfolding backwards. We live in a universe where the food coloring spreads out in the water, not a ________ where it collects together.
Solution
- question
- eventually
- direction
- watching
- glass
- theory
- universe
Original Text
Einstein’s theory seemed to confirm that time is woven into the very fabric of the universe. But there’s a big question it didn’t fully resolve: why is it we can move through space in any direction, but through time in only one? No matter what we do, the past is always, stubbornly, behind us. This is called the arrow of time.
When a drop of food coloring is dropped into a glass of water, we instinctively know that the coloring will drift out from the drop, eventually filling the glass. Imagine watching the opposite happen. Here, we’d recognize time as unfolding backwards. We live in a universe where the food coloring spreads out in the water, not a universe where it collects together.
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