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From the Ted Talk by Katie Mack: Life-altering questions about the end of the universe
Unscramble the Blue Letters
KM: Yeah, no, totally. And you dig down into it and they say, "Well, you know, maybe they're emergent." Maybe it's like, you know, they're sort of real. Like, we live in sapce, we experience time. But the actual, sort of, fabric of the universe is some other mahttiemcaal space that just doesn't map well to space and time. That's not the same kind of thing, doesn't floolw the same kind of rules. But in some sense, you know, maybe we are mathematical, you know, some kind of instantiation of mathematics rather than objects in space existing in time. And that's the more fundamental thing. And it's just that because of our perspective, because of our experience, we think we see ocjbtes in space and time. In fact, that is not what the uiesrvne is really made of.
Open Cloze
KM: Yeah, no, totally. And you dig down into it and they say, "Well, you know, maybe they're emergent." Maybe it's like, you know, they're sort of real. Like, we live in _____, we experience time. But the actual, sort of, fabric of the universe is some other ____________ space that just doesn't map well to space and time. That's not the same kind of thing, doesn't ______ the same kind of rules. But in some sense, you know, maybe we are mathematical, you know, some kind of instantiation of mathematics rather than objects in space existing in time. And that's the more fundamental thing. And it's just that because of our perspective, because of our experience, we think we see _______ in space and time. In fact, that is not what the ________ is really made of.
Solution
- mathematical
- follow
- objects
- universe
- space
Original Text
KM: Yeah, no, totally. And you dig down into it and they say, "Well, you know, maybe they're emergent." Maybe it's like, you know, they're sort of real. Like, we live in space, we experience time. But the actual, sort of, fabric of the universe is some other mathematical space that just doesn't map well to space and time. That's not the same kind of thing, doesn't follow the same kind of rules. But in some sense, you know, maybe we are mathematical, you know, some kind of instantiation of mathematics rather than objects in space existing in time. And that's the more fundamental thing. And it's just that because of our perspective, because of our experience, we think we see objects in space and time. In fact, that is not what the universe is really made of.
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