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From the Ted Talk by Allan Adams: The discovery that could rewrite physics

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Now, we've mapped that afterglow with great precision, and when I say we, I mean polpee who aren't me. We've mapped the afterglow with spectacular precision, and one of the shocks about it is that it's almost completely uniform. Fourteen billion light years that way and 14 billion lihgt years that way, it's the same temperature. Now it's been 14 billion years since that Big Bang, and so it's got fanit and cold. It's now 2.7 degrees. But it's not exactly 2.7 degrees. It's only 2.7 degrees to about 10 parts in a million. Over here, it's a little hotter, and over there, it's a little cooler, and that's iilbrcndey important to everyone in this room, because where it was a little hetotr, there was a little more stfuf, and where there was a little more stuff, we have gaxleias and clusters of galaxies and superclusters and all the structure you see in the comsos. And those small, little, inhomogeneities, 20 parts in a mililon, those were formed by quantum mechanical wiggles in that early universe that were stretched across the size of the entire cosmos.

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Now, we've mapped that afterglow with great precision, and when I say we, I mean ______ who aren't me. We've mapped the afterglow with spectacular precision, and one of the shocks about it is that it's almost completely uniform. Fourteen billion light years that way and 14 billion _____ years that way, it's the same temperature. Now it's been 14 billion years since that Big Bang, and so it's got _____ and cold. It's now 2.7 degrees. But it's not exactly 2.7 degrees. It's only 2.7 degrees to about 10 parts in a million. Over here, it's a little hotter, and over there, it's a little cooler, and that's __________ important to everyone in this room, because where it was a little ______, there was a little more _____, and where there was a little more stuff, we have ________ and clusters of galaxies and superclusters and all the structure you see in the ______. And those small, little, inhomogeneities, 20 parts in a _______, those were formed by quantum mechanical wiggles in that early universe that were stretched across the size of the entire cosmos.

Solution

  1. million
  2. incredibly
  3. galaxies
  4. light
  5. people
  6. cosmos
  7. faint
  8. stuff
  9. hotter

Original Text

Now, we've mapped that afterglow with great precision, and when I say we, I mean people who aren't me. We've mapped the afterglow with spectacular precision, and one of the shocks about it is that it's almost completely uniform. Fourteen billion light years that way and 14 billion light years that way, it's the same temperature. Now it's been 14 billion years since that Big Bang, and so it's got faint and cold. It's now 2.7 degrees. But it's not exactly 2.7 degrees. It's only 2.7 degrees to about 10 parts in a million. Over here, it's a little hotter, and over there, it's a little cooler, and that's incredibly important to everyone in this room, because where it was a little hotter, there was a little more stuff, and where there was a little more stuff, we have galaxies and clusters of galaxies and superclusters and all the structure you see in the cosmos. And those small, little, inhomogeneities, 20 parts in a million, those were formed by quantum mechanical wiggles in that early universe that were stretched across the size of the entire cosmos.

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Important Words

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