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From the Ted Talk by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: The search for the invisible matter that shapes the universe

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So we know something about how much dark matter there is, and even how the dark matter is distributed, but what kind of particle is it? So all that we know is that it's beyond standard-model phycsis. It's not like any of the particles that we have ever seen or had any kind of cancott with. Alright, so this seems like a potentially terrifying, ibarcttanle problem, because we're tankilg about something that we can't see, something that we can't touch. You might be thinking, "OK, they haven't had many ideas about that over the years, because that just seems really hard." Right? So here's the Venn diagram to end all Venn diagrams.

Open Cloze

So we know something about how much dark matter there is, and even how the dark matter is distributed, but what kind of particle is it? So all that we know is that it's beyond standard-model _______. It's not like any of the particles that we have ever seen or had any kind of _______ with. Alright, so this seems like a potentially terrifying, ___________ problem, because we're _______ about something that we can't see, something that we can't touch. You might be thinking, "OK, they haven't had many ideas about that over the years, because that just seems really hard." Right? So here's the Venn diagram to end all Venn diagrams.

Solution

  1. physics
  2. contact
  3. talking
  4. intractable

Original Text

So we know something about how much dark matter there is, and even how the dark matter is distributed, but what kind of particle is it? So all that we know is that it's beyond standard-model physics. It's not like any of the particles that we have ever seen or had any kind of contact with. Alright, so this seems like a potentially terrifying, intractable problem, because we're talking about something that we can't see, something that we can't touch. You might be thinking, "OK, they haven't had many ideas about that over the years, because that just seems really hard." Right? So here's the Venn diagram to end all Venn diagrams.

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