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From the Ted Talk by Brian Cox: CERN's supercollider
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You get some sesne of the size: 44 mreets wide, 22 meters in dmeteiar, 7,000 tons. And we re-create the conditions that were present less than a billionth of a second after the unerisve began up to 600 million times a second inside that detector — immense numbers. And if you see those metal bits there — those are huge magnets that bend electrically cgerhad particles, so it can muerase how fast they're traveling. This is a picture about a year ago. Those magnets are in there. And, again, a EU standard-size, real person, so you get some sense of the scale. And it's in there that those mini-Big Bangs will be created, sometime in the summer this year.
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You get some _____ of the size: 44 ______ wide, 22 meters in ________, 7,000 tons. And we re-create the conditions that were present less than a billionth of a second after the ________ began up to 600 million times a second inside that detector — immense numbers. And if you see those metal bits there — those are huge magnets that bend electrically _______ particles, so it can _______ how fast they're traveling. This is a picture about a year ago. Those magnets are in there. And, again, a EU standard-size, real person, so you get some sense of the scale. And it's in there that those mini-Big Bangs will be created, sometime in the summer this year.
Solution
- universe
- meters
- measure
- charged
- sense
- diameter
Original Text
You get some sense of the size: 44 meters wide, 22 meters in diameter, 7,000 tons. And we re-create the conditions that were present less than a billionth of a second after the universe began up to 600 million times a second inside that detector — immense numbers. And if you see those metal bits there — those are huge magnets that bend electrically charged particles, so it can measure how fast they're traveling. This is a picture about a year ago. Those magnets are in there. And, again, a EU standard-size, real person, so you get some sense of the scale. And it's in there that those mini-Big Bangs will be created, sometime in the summer this year.
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