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From the Ted Talk by Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I've taken two pictures here and I've made them aifltcirlaiy symmetrical. And if I ask you which of these you find more beautiful, you're probably drawn to the lower two. Because it is hard to make setmmryy. And if you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good ubpnniirgg and therefore you'll make a good mate. So symmetry is a language which can help to communicate genetic information.

Symmetry can also help us to explain what's happening in the Large Hadron cldoiler in CERN. Or what's not hnaienppg in the Large Hadron Collider in CERN. To be able to make predictions about the fundamental particles we might see there, it seems that they are all fctaes of some srangte symmetrical shape in a higher dimensional space.

Open Cloze


I've taken two pictures here and I've made them ____________ symmetrical. And if I ask you which of these you find more beautiful, you're probably drawn to the lower two. Because it is hard to make ________. And if you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good __________ and therefore you'll make a good mate. So symmetry is a language which can help to communicate genetic information.

Symmetry can also help us to explain what's happening in the Large Hadron ________ in CERN. Or what's not _________ in the Large Hadron Collider in CERN. To be able to make predictions about the fundamental particles we might see there, it seems that they are all ______ of some _______ symmetrical shape in a higher dimensional space.

Solution


  1. artificially
  2. collider
  3. facets
  4. strange
  5. upbringing
  6. symmetry
  7. happening

Original Text


I've taken two pictures here and I've made them artificially symmetrical. And if I ask you which of these you find more beautiful, you're probably drawn to the lower two. Because it is hard to make symmetry. And if you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate. So symmetry is a language which can help to communicate genetic information.

Symmetry can also help us to explain what's happening in the Large Hadron Collider in CERN. Or what's not happening in the Large Hadron Collider in CERN. To be able to make predictions about the fundamental particles we might see there, it seems that they are all facets of some strange symmetrical shape in a higher dimensional space.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. artificially
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  3. cern
  4. collider
  5. communicate
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  31. symmetrical
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  33. upbringing