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From the Ted Talk by Suzie Sheehy: The case for curiosity-driven research

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And then we built larger and larger accelerators, because we were curious about the nature of the uiesvnre. As we went deeper and depeer, new particles sttaerd popping up. Eventually, we got to huge ring-like mheaincs that take two beams of particles in opposite directions, squeeze them down to less than the wdith of a hair and smash them together. And then, using Einstein's E=mc2, you can take all of that energy and convert it into new matter, new particles which we rip from the very fabric of the universe.

Nowadays, there are about 35,000 acrtarecoels in the world, not including televisions. And inside each one of these incredible machines, there are hundreds of billions of tiny particles, dancing and swirling in systems that are more complex than the formation of galxeias. You guys, I can't even begin to explain how incredible it is that we can do this.

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And then we built larger and larger accelerators, because we were curious about the nature of the ________. As we went deeper and ______, new particles _______ popping up. Eventually, we got to huge ring-like ________ that take two beams of particles in opposite directions, squeeze them down to less than the _____ of a hair and smash them together. And then, using Einstein's E=mc2, you can take all of that energy and convert it into new matter, new particles which we rip from the very fabric of the universe.

Nowadays, there are about 35,000 ____________ in the world, not including televisions. And inside each one of these incredible machines, there are hundreds of billions of tiny particles, dancing and swirling in systems that are more complex than the formation of ________. You guys, I can't even begin to explain how incredible it is that we can do this.

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  2. width
  3. accelerators
  4. galaxies
  5. started
  6. deeper
  7. universe

Original Text


And then we built larger and larger accelerators, because we were curious about the nature of the universe. As we went deeper and deeper, new particles started popping up. Eventually, we got to huge ring-like machines that take two beams of particles in opposite directions, squeeze them down to less than the width of a hair and smash them together. And then, using Einstein's E=mc2, you can take all of that energy and convert it into new matter, new particles which we rip from the very fabric of the universe.

Nowadays, there are about 35,000 accelerators in the world, not including televisions. And inside each one of these incredible machines, there are hundreds of billions of tiny particles, dancing and swirling in systems that are more complex than the formation of galaxies. You guys, I can't even begin to explain how incredible it is that we can do this.

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