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From the Ted Talk by Helen Czerski: The fascinating physics of everyday life

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I've got a little video here. So the game is, one of these eggs is raw and one of them has been boiled. I want you to tell me which one is which. Which one's raw?

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_____________, this is the bit that really matters to me on an everyday _____. And this is the bit that we don't talk about. There's plenty of physics research going on here. But because it doesn't _______ pointing at stars, people for some reason think it's not that. Now, the cool thing about this is that there are so many things in this ______ bit, all following the same physical laws, that we can see those laws at work almost all the time around us.

I've got a little video here. So the game is, one of these eggs is raw and one of them has been boiled. I want you to tell me which one is which. Which one's raw?

Solution


  1. fundamentally
  2. involve
  3. middle
  4. basis

Original Text


Fundamentally, this is the bit that really matters to me on an everyday basis. And this is the bit that we don't talk about. There's plenty of physics research going on here. But because it doesn't involve pointing at stars, people for some reason think it's not that. Now, the cool thing about this is that there are so many things in this middle bit, all following the same physical laws, that we can see those laws at work almost all the time around us.

I've got a little video here. So the game is, one of these eggs is raw and one of them has been boiled. I want you to tell me which one is which. Which one's raw?

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