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From the Ted Talk by George Smoot: The design of the universe

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So what I'm going to do is show you the distribution of matter as a fictunon of scales. We're going to zoom in, but this is a plot of what it is. And we had to add one more thing to make the uevnrsie come out right. It's cellad dark matter. That is matter that doesn't interact with light the typical way that ordinary matter does, the way the light's siinhng on me or on the stage. It's transparent to light, but in order for you to see it, we're going to make it white. OK? So the stuff that's in this picture that's white, that is the dark mteatr. It should be called invisible matter, but the dark matter we've made visible. And the stuff that is in the yellow color, that is the ordinary kind of matter that's turned into srtas and galaxies.

Open Cloze

So what I'm going to do is show you the distribution of matter as a ________ of scales. We're going to zoom in, but this is a plot of what it is. And we had to add one more thing to make the ________ come out right. It's ______ dark matter. That is matter that doesn't interact with light the typical way that ordinary matter does, the way the light's _______ on me or on the stage. It's transparent to light, but in order for you to see it, we're going to make it white. OK? So the stuff that's in this picture that's white, that is the dark ______. It should be called invisible matter, but the dark matter we've made visible. And the stuff that is in the yellow color, that is the ordinary kind of matter that's turned into _____ and galaxies.

Solution

  1. stars
  2. function
  3. matter
  4. universe
  5. called
  6. shining

Original Text

So what I'm going to do is show you the distribution of matter as a function of scales. We're going to zoom in, but this is a plot of what it is. And we had to add one more thing to make the universe come out right. It's called dark matter. That is matter that doesn't interact with light the typical way that ordinary matter does, the way the light's shining on me or on the stage. It's transparent to light, but in order for you to see it, we're going to make it white. OK? So the stuff that's in this picture that's white, that is the dark matter. It should be called invisible matter, but the dark matter we've made visible. And the stuff that is in the yellow color, that is the ordinary kind of matter that's turned into stars and galaxies.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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million galaxies 3
ordinary matter 3
light objects 2
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million years 2
billion years 2
tiny variations 2
started forming 2
galaxies showing 2
light years 2
simple fluid 2
large cluster 2

Important Words

  1. add
  2. called
  3. color
  4. dark
  5. distribution
  6. function
  7. galaxies
  8. interact
  9. invisible
  10. kind
  11. light
  12. matter
  13. order
  14. ordinary
  15. picture
  16. plot
  17. scales
  18. shining
  19. show
  20. stage
  21. stars
  22. stuff
  23. transparent
  24. turned
  25. typical
  26. universe
  27. visible
  28. white
  29. yellow
  30. zoom