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From the Ted Talk by George Smoot: The design of the universe

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Now we're going to fly through it at warp a million. And every time there's a galaxy — at its location there's a galaxy — and if we know anything about the galaxy, which we do, because there's a redshift measurement and everything, you put in the type of galaxy and the coolr, so this is the real representation. And when you're in the middle of the galaxies it's hard to see the pattern; it's like being in the middle of life. It's hard to see the pattern in the middle of the audience, it's hard to see the ptatren of this. So we're going to go out and swing around and look back at this. And you'll see, first, the structure of the srveuy, and then you'll start seeing the structure of the galaxies that we see out there. So again, you can see the extension of this Great Wall of geaxails showing up here.

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Now we're going to fly through it at warp a million. And every time there's a galaxy — at its location there's a galaxy — and if we know anything about the galaxy, which we do, because there's a redshift measurement and everything, you put in the type of galaxy and the _____, so this is the real representation. And when you're in the middle of the galaxies it's hard to see the pattern; it's like being in the middle of life. It's hard to see the pattern in the middle of the audience, it's hard to see the _______ of this. So we're going to go out and swing around and look back at this. And you'll see, first, the structure of the ______, and then you'll start seeing the structure of the galaxies that we see out there. So again, you can see the extension of this Great Wall of ________ showing up here.

Solution

  1. color
  2. pattern
  3. survey
  4. galaxies

Original Text

Now we're going to fly through it at warp a million. And every time there's a galaxy — at its location there's a galaxy — and if we know anything about the galaxy, which we do, because there's a redshift measurement and everything, you put in the type of galaxy and the color, so this is the real representation. And when you're in the middle of the galaxies it's hard to see the pattern; it's like being in the middle of life. It's hard to see the pattern in the middle of the audience, it's hard to see the pattern of this. So we're going to go out and swing around and look back at this. And you'll see, first, the structure of the survey, and then you'll start seeing the structure of the galaxies that we see out there. So again, you can see the extension of this Great Wall of galaxies showing up here.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

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dark matter 5
hubble space 3
million galaxies 3
ordinary matter 3
light objects 2
takes light 2
million years 2
billion years 2
tiny variations 2
started forming 2
galaxies showing 2
light years 2
simple fluid 2
large cluster 2

Important Words

  1. audience
  2. color
  3. extension
  4. fly
  5. galaxies
  6. galaxy
  7. great
  8. hard
  9. life
  10. location
  11. measurement
  12. middle
  13. million
  14. pattern
  15. put
  16. real
  17. redshift
  18. representation
  19. showing
  20. start
  21. structure
  22. survey
  23. swing
  24. time
  25. type
  26. wall
  27. warp