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From the Ted Talk by Allan Adams: The discovery that could rewrite physics

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And the thing that's so spectacular about that to me is not just the rngniig, though that is awesome. The thing that's totally azianmg, the reason I'm on this stage, is because what that tells us is something deep about the early universe. It tells us that we and everything we see around us are basically one large bulbbe — and this is the idea of inflation— one large bubble surrounded by something else. This isn't conclusive evidence for inflation, but anything that isn't inflation that explains this will look the same. This is a thorey, an idea, that has been around for a while, and we never thhogut we we'd really see it. For good reasons, we thought we'd never see killer evidence, and this is killer evidence.

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And the thing that's so spectacular about that to me is not just the _______, though that is awesome. The thing that's totally _______, the reason I'm on this stage, is because what that tells us is something deep about the early universe. It tells us that we and everything we see around us are basically one large ______ — and this is the idea of inflation— one large bubble surrounded by something else. This isn't conclusive evidence for inflation, but anything that isn't inflation that explains this will look the same. This is a ______, an idea, that has been around for a while, and we never _______ we we'd really see it. For good reasons, we thought we'd never see killer evidence, and this is killer evidence.

Solution


  1. thought
  2. amazing
  3. ringing
  4. theory
  5. bubble

Original Text


And the thing that's so spectacular about that to me is not just the ringing, though that is awesome. The thing that's totally amazing, the reason I'm on this stage, is because what that tells us is something deep about the early universe. It tells us that we and everything we see around us are basically one large bubble — and this is the idea of inflation— one large bubble surrounded by something else. This isn't conclusive evidence for inflation, but anything that isn't inflation that explains this will look the same. This is a theory, an idea, that has been around for a while, and we never thought we we'd really see it. For good reasons, we thought we'd never see killer evidence, and this is killer evidence.

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Important Words


  1. amazing
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