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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

  1. mathematical
  2. follow
  3. objects
  4. universe
  5. 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.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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dark energy 4
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Important Words

  1. actual
  2. dig
  3. emergent
  4. existing
  5. experience
  6. fabric
  7. fact
  8. follow
  9. fundamental
  10. instantiation
  11. kind
  12. live
  13. map
  14. mathematical
  15. mathematics
  16. objects
  17. perspective
  18. real
  19. rules
  20. sense
  21. sort
  22. space
  23. time
  24. totally
  25. universe
  26. yeah