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From the Ted Talk by Harry Cliff: Have we reached the end of physics?

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So we're in an extremely frustrating psoition. That doesn't mean the multiverse doesn't exist. There are other planets, other stars, other glaxiaes, so why not other urensievs? The problem is, it's unlikely we'll ever know for sure. Now, the idea of the multiverse has been around for a while, but in the last few years, we've started to get the first solid hints that this line of rioenansg may get born out. Despite high hopes for the first run of the LHC, what we were looking for there — we were looking for new theories of physics: stesmremyupry or large extra dimensions that could explain this weirdly fine-tuned value of the Higgs field. But despite high hopes, the LHC revealed a barren subatomic wilderness populated only by a lonely Higgs bsoon. My experiment pisuehbld paper after ppear where we glumly had to conclude that we saw no signs of new physics.

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So we're in an extremely frustrating ________. That doesn't mean the multiverse doesn't exist. There are other planets, other stars, other ________, so why not other _________? The problem is, it's unlikely we'll ever know for sure. Now, the idea of the multiverse has been around for a while, but in the last few years, we've started to get the first solid hints that this line of _________ may get born out. Despite high hopes for the first run of the LHC, what we were looking for there — we were looking for new theories of physics: _____________ or large extra dimensions that could explain this weirdly fine-tuned value of the Higgs field. But despite high hopes, the LHC revealed a barren subatomic wilderness populated only by a lonely Higgs _____. My experiment _________ paper after _____ where we glumly had to conclude that we saw no signs of new physics.

Solution

  1. supersymmetry
  2. reasoning
  3. paper
  4. galaxies
  5. position
  6. boson
  7. published
  8. universes

Original Text

So we're in an extremely frustrating position. That doesn't mean the multiverse doesn't exist. There are other planets, other stars, other galaxies, so why not other universes? The problem is, it's unlikely we'll ever know for sure. Now, the idea of the multiverse has been around for a while, but in the last few years, we've started to get the first solid hints that this line of reasoning may get born out. Despite high hopes for the first run of the LHC, what we were looking for there — we were looking for new theories of physics: supersymmetry or large extra dimensions that could explain this weirdly fine-tuned value of the Higgs field. But despite high hopes, the LHC revealed a barren subatomic wilderness populated only by a lonely Higgs boson. My experiment published paper after paper where we glumly had to conclude that we saw no signs of new physics.

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