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From the Ted Talk by George Smoot: The design of the universe

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So I'm going to show you a smaller simulation. This stmoiaulin was run on 1,000 processors for a month in order to make just this simple visible one. So I'm going to show you one that can be run on a desktop in two days in the next picture. So you srtat out with teeny fluctuations when the universe was at this point, now four times smaller, and so forth. And you start seeing these nwkorets, this cosmic web of structure fnomrig. And this is a simple one, because it doesn't have the ordinary matter and it just has the dark matter in it. And you see how the dark matter lumps up, and the ordinary matter just trails along behind. So there it is. At the beginning it's very ufrionm. The fluctuations are a part in 100,000. There are a few pakes that are a part in 10,000, and then over bonlliis of years, gravity just pulls in.

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So I'm going to show you a smaller simulation. This __________ was run on 1,000 processors for a month in order to make just this simple visible one. So I'm going to show you one that can be run on a desktop in two days in the next picture. So you _____ out with teeny fluctuations when the universe was at this point, now four times smaller, and so forth. And you start seeing these ________, this cosmic web of structure _______. And this is a simple one, because it doesn't have the ordinary matter and it just has the dark matter in it. And you see how the dark matter lumps up, and the ordinary matter just trails along behind. So there it is. At the beginning it's very _______. The fluctuations are a part in 100,000. There are a few _____ that are a part in 10,000, and then over ________ of years, gravity just pulls in.

Solution


  1. peaks
  2. simulation
  3. forming
  4. billions
  5. uniform
  6. networks
  7. start

Original Text


So I'm going to show you a smaller simulation. This simulation was run on 1,000 processors for a month in order to make just this simple visible one. So I'm going to show you one that can be run on a desktop in two days in the next picture. So you start out with teeny fluctuations when the universe was at this point, now four times smaller, and so forth. And you start seeing these networks, this cosmic web of structure forming. And this is a simple one, because it doesn't have the ordinary matter and it just has the dark matter in it. And you see how the dark matter lumps up, and the ordinary matter just trails along behind. So there it is. At the beginning it's very uniform. The fluctuations are a part in 100,000. There are a few peaks that are a part in 10,000, and then over billions of years, gravity just pulls in.

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Important Words


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