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From the Ted Talk by Fabio Pacucci: The battle that formed the universe

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Meanwhile, pressure begins gathering its strength. In this hot, high-energy ___________, _______ and electrons can’t come together to form atoms, so these loose particles zip around, freely interacting with ambient photons. The ______ is almost a fluid of baryonic ______ and radiation. But the ______ these baryonic particles get, the hotter the fluid becomes, pushing photons to ping around with incredible force. This is the power of ________, specifically _________ pressure, battling to push things apart.

With each of gravity’s vicious tugs _________ photons and matter together, pressure exerts a forceful shove back. And as the two giants ________, they heave this fluid back and forth— ________ massive waves called baryonic acoustic oscillations. Moving at almost two thirds the speed of light these BAOs ripple across space, impacting the universe on the biggest _____ imaginable. These rolling waves determine the ____________ of matter throughout space, meaning that today— almost 14 billion years after this _____ began— we're more likely to find galaxies at their peaks and empty space in their troughs. And that’s not all. We can still see these ripples in the background radiation of the universe, a permanent reminder of this epic brawl.

Solution


  1. environment
  2. pressure
  3. creating
  4. result
  5. scale
  6. fight
  7. radiation
  8. matter
  9. protons
  10. squeezing
  11. struggle
  12. closer
  13. distribution

Original Text


Meanwhile, pressure begins gathering its strength. In this hot, high-energy environment, protons and electrons can’t come together to form atoms, so these loose particles zip around, freely interacting with ambient photons. The result is almost a fluid of baryonic matter and radiation. But the closer these baryonic particles get, the hotter the fluid becomes, pushing photons to ping around with incredible force. This is the power of pressure, specifically radiation pressure, battling to push things apart.

With each of gravity’s vicious tugs squeezing photons and matter together, pressure exerts a forceful shove back. And as the two giants struggle, they heave this fluid back and forth— creating massive waves called baryonic acoustic oscillations. Moving at almost two thirds the speed of light these BAOs ripple across space, impacting the universe on the biggest scale imaginable. These rolling waves determine the distribution of matter throughout space, meaning that today— almost 14 billion years after this fight began— we're more likely to find galaxies at their peaks and empty space in their troughs. And that’s not all. We can still see these ripples in the background radiation of the universe, a permanent reminder of this epic brawl.

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Important Words


  1. acoustic
  2. ambient
  3. atoms
  4. background
  5. baos
  6. baryonic
  7. battling
  8. begins
  9. biggest
  10. billion
  11. brawl
  12. called
  13. closer
  14. creating
  15. determine
  16. distribution
  17. electrons
  18. empty
  19. environment
  20. epic
  21. exerts
  22. fight
  23. find
  24. fluid
  25. force
  26. forceful
  27. form
  28. freely
  29. galaxies
  30. gathering
  31. giants
  32. heave
  33. hot
  34. hotter
  35. imaginable
  36. impacting
  37. incredible
  38. interacting
  39. light
  40. loose
  41. massive
  42. matter
  43. meaning
  44. moving
  45. oscillations
  46. particles
  47. peaks
  48. permanent
  49. photons
  50. ping
  51. power
  52. pressure
  53. protons
  54. push
  55. pushing
  56. radiation
  57. reminder
  58. result
  59. ripple
  60. ripples
  61. rolling
  62. scale
  63. shove
  64. space
  65. specifically
  66. speed
  67. squeezing
  68. strength
  69. struggle
  70. thirds
  71. troughs
  72. tugs
  73. universe
  74. vicious
  75. waves
  76. years
  77. zip