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From the Ted Talk by George Smoot: The design of the universe

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So let me show you some of nature's patterns that are the result of this. I always think of space-time as being the real substance of sacpe, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean. It's a marker of where the inrstntieeg wvaes are and whatever went on. So here is the Sloan Digital Sky Survey showing the location of a million galaxies. So there's a dot on here for every galaxy. They go out and point a telescope at the sky, take a putrice, identify what are stars and throw them away, look at the galaxies, ettsiame how far away they are, and plot them up. And just put radially they're going out that way. And you see these structures, this thing we call the gaert Wall, but there are voids and those kinds of stuff, and they kind of fade out because the telescope isn't stsnievie enough to do it.

Open Cloze


So let me show you some of nature's patterns that are the result of this. I always think of space-time as being the real substance of _____, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean. It's a marker of where the ___________ _____ are and whatever went on. So here is the Sloan Digital Sky Survey showing the location of a million galaxies. So there's a dot on here for every galaxy. They go out and point a telescope at the sky, take a _______, identify what are stars and throw them away, look at the galaxies, ________ how far away they are, and plot them up. And just put radially they're going out that way. And you see these structures, this thing we call the _____ Wall, but there are voids and those kinds of stuff, and they kind of fade out because the telescope isn't _________ enough to do it.

Solution


  1. estimate
  2. space
  3. picture
  4. interesting
  5. waves
  6. sensitive
  7. great

Original Text


So let me show you some of nature's patterns that are the result of this. I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean. It's a marker of where the interesting waves are and whatever went on. So here is the Sloan Digital Sky Survey showing the location of a million galaxies. So there's a dot on here for every galaxy. They go out and point a telescope at the sky, take a picture, identify what are stars and throw them away, look at the galaxies, estimate how far away they are, and plot them up. And just put radially they're going out that way. And you see these structures, this thing we call the Great Wall, but there are voids and those kinds of stuff, and they kind of fade out because the telescope isn't sensitive enough to do it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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million galaxies 3
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light objects 2
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million years 2
billion years 2
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Important Words


  1. call
  2. digital
  3. dot
  4. estimate
  5. fade
  6. foam
  7. galaxies
  8. galaxy
  9. great
  10. identify
  11. interesting
  12. kind
  13. kinds
  14. location
  15. marker
  16. million
  17. ocean
  18. patterns
  19. picture
  20. plot
  21. point
  22. put
  23. radially
  24. real
  25. result
  26. sensitive
  27. show
  28. showing
  29. sky
  30. sloan
  31. space
  32. stars
  33. structures
  34. stuff
  35. substance
  36. survey
  37. telescope
  38. throw
  39. voids
  40. wall
  41. waves