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From the Ted Talk by Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Now maybe those future astronomers will have records handed down from an earlier era, like ours, aitstnteg to an expanding cosmos teeming with galaxies. But would those future astronomers believe such ancient knowledge? Or would they believe in the black, static empty universe that their own state-of-the-art observations reveal? I suspect the latter. Which means that we are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cmsoos are still within rceah of the human siiprt of exploration. It appears that it may not always be that way. Because today's astronomers, by turning powerful teosceelps to the sky, have captured a hafundl of starkly informative photons — a kind of cosmic teelgram billions of years in tsanirt. and the msesage echoing across the ages is clear. Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nutrae of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
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Now maybe those future astronomers will have records handed down from an earlier era, like ours, _________ to an expanding cosmos teeming with galaxies. But would those future astronomers believe such ancient knowledge? Or would they believe in the black, static empty universe that their own state-of-the-art observations reveal? I suspect the latter. Which means that we are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the ______ are still within _____ of the human ______ of exploration. It appears that it may not always be that way. Because today's astronomers, by turning powerful __________ to the sky, have captured a _______ of starkly informative photons — a kind of cosmic ________ billions of years in _______. and the _______ echoing across the ages is clear. Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true ______ of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
Solution
- transit
- cosmos
- attesting
- nature
- spirit
- message
- handful
- reach
- telescopes
- telegram
Original Text
Now maybe those future astronomers will have records handed down from an earlier era, like ours, attesting to an expanding cosmos teeming with galaxies. But would those future astronomers believe such ancient knowledge? Or would they believe in the black, static empty universe that their own state-of-the-art observations reveal? I suspect the latter. Which means that we are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration. It appears that it may not always be that way. Because today's astronomers, by turning powerful telescopes to the sky, have captured a handful of starkly informative photons — a kind of cosmic telegram billions of years in transit. and the message echoing across the ages is clear. Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
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