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From the Ted Talk by George Smoot: The design of the universe
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So let me show you some of nature's patterns that are the result of this. I always think of space-time as being the real substance of sapce, and the galaixes and the satrs just like the foam on the ocean. It's a marker of where the interesting waevs are and whatever went on. So here is the Sloan dagiitl Sky Survey showing the location of a million galaxies. So there's a dot on here for every galaxy. They go out and point a telescope at the sky, take a picture, identify what are stars and throw them away, look at the galaxies, estimate how far away they are, and plot them up. And just put ralaildy they're going out that way. And you see these structures, this thing we call the Great Wall, but there are voids and those kinds of sfutf, and they kind of fade out because the telescope isn't sensitive enough to do it.
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So let me show you some of nature's patterns that are the result of this. I always think of space-time as being the real substance of _____, and the ________ and the _____ just like the foam on the ocean. It's a marker of where the interesting _____ are and whatever went on. So here is the Sloan _______ Sky Survey showing the location of a million galaxies. So there's a dot on here for every galaxy. They go out and point a telescope at the sky, take a picture, identify what are stars and throw them away, look at the galaxies, estimate how far away they are, and plot them up. And just put ________ they're going out that way. And you see these structures, this thing we call the Great Wall, but there are voids and those kinds of _____, and they kind of fade out because the telescope isn't sensitive enough to do it.
Solution
- stuff
- space
- galaxies
- stars
- digital
- waves
- radially
Original Text
So let me show you some of nature's patterns that are the result of this. I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean. It's a marker of where the interesting waves are and whatever went on. So here is the Sloan Digital Sky Survey showing the location of a million galaxies. So there's a dot on here for every galaxy. They go out and point a telescope at the sky, take a picture, identify what are stars and throw them away, look at the galaxies, estimate how far away they are, and plot them up. And just put radially they're going out that way. And you see these structures, this thing we call the Great Wall, but there are voids and those kinds of stuff, and they kind of fade out because the telescope isn't sensitive enough to do it.
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