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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

  1. universe
  2. meters
  3. measure
  4. charged
  5. sense
  6. 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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