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From the Ted Talk by Gian Giudice: Why our universe might exist on a knife-edge

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My story does not have an end, because we still don't know the end of the story. This is science in progress, and to svole the mystery, we need more data, and hopefully, the LHC will soon add new celus to this story. Just one number, the Higgs boson mass, and yet, out of this nbemur we learn so much. I started from a hypothesis, that the known particles are all there is in the universe, even beyond the domain explored so far. From this, we discovered that the Higgs field that permeates space-time may be standing on a knife edge, raedy for cosmic collapse, and we discovered that this may be a hint that our universe is only a grain of sand in a giant becah, the multiverse.

Open Cloze


My story does not have an end, because we still don't know the end of the story. This is science in progress, and to _____ the mystery, we need more data, and hopefully, the LHC will soon add new _____ to this story. Just one number, the Higgs boson mass, and yet, out of this ______ we learn so much. I started from a hypothesis, that the known particles are all there is in the universe, even beyond the domain explored so far. From this, we discovered that the Higgs field that permeates space-time may be standing on a knife edge, _____ for cosmic collapse, and we discovered that this may be a hint that our universe is only a grain of sand in a giant _____, the multiverse.

Solution


  1. beach
  2. solve
  3. ready
  4. number
  5. clues

Original Text


My story does not have an end, because we still don't know the end of the story. This is science in progress, and to solve the mystery, we need more data, and hopefully, the LHC will soon add new clues to this story. Just one number, the Higgs boson mass, and yet, out of this number we learn so much. I started from a hypothesis, that the known particles are all there is in the universe, even beyond the domain explored so far. From this, we discovered that the Higgs field that permeates space-time may be standing on a knife edge, ready for cosmic collapse, and we discovered that this may be a hint that our universe is only a grain of sand in a giant beach, the multiverse.

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