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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


  1. question
  2. eventually
  3. direction
  4. watching
  5. glass
  6. theory
  7. 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.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
food coloring 2



Important Words


  1. arrow
  2. big
  3. called
  4. collects
  5. coloring
  6. confirm
  7. direction
  8. drift
  9. drop
  10. dropped
  11. eventually
  12. fabric
  13. filling
  14. food
  15. fully
  16. glass
  17. happen
  18. imagine
  19. instinctively
  20. live
  21. matter
  22. move
  23. question
  24. recognize
  25. space
  26. spreads
  27. stubbornly
  28. theory
  29. time
  30. unfolding
  31. universe
  32. watching
  33. water
  34. woven