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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Connolly: What's the next window into our universe?

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Now, in many ways, the qiseuonts that I peosd are in reality the simplest of questions. We may not know the answers, but we at least know how to ask the questions. But if looking through tens of thousands of galaxies reveeald 42 supernovae that turned our understanding of the universe on its head, when we're working with billions of geilaaxs, how many more times are we going to find 42 points that don't quite match what we except? Like the planet found by Herschel or dark energy or quantum mechanics or general riavtietly, all ideas that came because the data didn't quite match what we expected. What's so exciting about the next decade of data in asmntrooy is, we don't even know how many answers are out there waiting, answers about our origins and our evolution. How many answers are out there that we don't even know the questions that we want to ask?

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Now, in many ways, the _________ that I _____ are in reality the simplest of questions. We may not know the answers, but we at least know how to ask the questions. But if looking through tens of thousands of galaxies ________ 42 supernovae that turned our understanding of the universe on its head, when we're working with billions of ________, how many more times are we going to find 42 points that don't quite match what we ______? Like the planet found by Herschel or dark energy or quantum mechanics or general __________, all ideas that came because the data didn't quite match what we expected. What's so exciting about the next decade of data in _________ is, we don't even know how many answers are out there waiting, answers about our origins and our evolution. How many answers are out there that we don't even know the questions that we want to ask?

Solution

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  5. revealed
  6. relativity
  7. astronomy

Original Text

Now, in many ways, the questions that I posed are in reality the simplest of questions. We may not know the answers, but we at least know how to ask the questions. But if looking through tens of thousands of galaxies revealed 42 supernovae that turned our understanding of the universe on its head, when we're working with billions of galaxies, how many more times are we going to find 42 points that don't quite match what we expect? Like the planet found by Herschel or dark energy or quantum mechanics or general relativity, all ideas that came because the data didn't quite match what we expected. What's so exciting about the next decade of data in astronomy is, we don't even know how many answers are out there waiting, answers about our origins and our evolution. How many answers are out there that we don't even know the questions that we want to ask?

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