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From the Ted Talk by Venus Keus: Three ways the universe could end

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The Big Freeze scirnaeo is what happens if the force pulling the objects apart is just strong enough to stretch the rubber band until it loses its elasticity. The expansion wouldn’t be able to accelerate anymore, but the universe would keep getting bigger. Clusters of glxiaaes would separate. The objects within the galaxies– suns, ptnlaes, and solar systems would move away from each other, until galaxies dlesvoisd into lnleoy objects fiantlog separately in the vast space. The light they emit would be redshifted to long wavelengths with very low, faint energies, and the gas emanating from them would be too thin to create new srats. The universe would become darker and cldeor, approaching a frozen state also known as the Big Chill, or the Heat dtaeh of the Universe.

Open Cloze


The Big Freeze ________ is what happens if the force pulling the objects apart is just strong enough to stretch the rubber band until it loses its elasticity. The expansion wouldn’t be able to accelerate anymore, but the universe would keep getting bigger. Clusters of ________ would separate. The objects within the galaxies– suns, _______, and solar systems would move away from each other, until galaxies _________ into ______ objects ________ separately in the vast space. The light they emit would be redshifted to long wavelengths with very low, faint energies, and the gas emanating from them would be too thin to create new _____. The universe would become darker and ______, approaching a frozen state also known as the Big Chill, or the Heat _____ of the Universe.

Solution


  1. stars
  2. colder
  3. lonely
  4. galaxies
  5. planets
  6. death
  7. dissolved
  8. scenario
  9. floating

Original Text


The Big Freeze scenario is what happens if the force pulling the objects apart is just strong enough to stretch the rubber band until it loses its elasticity. The expansion wouldn’t be able to accelerate anymore, but the universe would keep getting bigger. Clusters of galaxies would separate. The objects within the galaxies– suns, planets, and solar systems would move away from each other, until galaxies dissolved into lonely objects floating separately in the vast space. The light they emit would be redshifted to long wavelengths with very low, faint energies, and the gas emanating from them would be too thin to create new stars. The universe would become darker and colder, approaching a frozen state also known as the Big Chill, or the Heat Death of the Universe.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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rubber band 4
big bang 2
big rip 2
big crunch 2
repulsive force 2
big freeze 2


Important Words


  1. accelerate
  2. anymore
  3. approaching
  4. band
  5. big
  6. bigger
  7. chill
  8. clusters
  9. colder
  10. create
  11. darker
  12. death
  13. dissolved
  14. elasticity
  15. emanating
  16. emit
  17. energies
  18. expansion
  19. faint
  20. floating
  21. force
  22. freeze
  23. frozen
  24. galaxies
  25. gas
  26. heat
  27. light
  28. lonely
  29. long
  30. loses
  31. move
  32. objects
  33. planets
  34. pulling
  35. redshifted
  36. rubber
  37. scenario
  38. separate
  39. separately
  40. solar
  41. space
  42. stars
  43. state
  44. stretch
  45. strong
  46. suns
  47. systems
  48. thin
  49. universe
  50. vast
  51. wavelengths