TED Talk Listening Comprehension Sheet

Life altering questions about the end of the universe

By: Katie Mack

https://www.ted.com/talks/katie_mack_life_altering_questions_about_the_end
_of_the_universe/transcript#t-403903

Vocabulary

‫کیهان‬
Cosmo

Multiverse ‫چندجهانی‬

Decay ‫پوسیدگی‬

Entropy ‫آنتروپی‬
Conceive ‫باردار شدن‬
Perpendicular
‫عمود بر‬
Envision
‫تجسم‬
Fate
‫سرنوشت‬
Realm
‫قلمرو‬
Speculation

Switch gears a little bit ‫حدس و گمان‬

Backflips ‫کمی دنده ها را عوض کنید‬

Collider ‫پشتک زدن‬

Particle ‫برخورد کننده‬
Salient
‫ذره‬
Equation
‫برجسته‬
Instantiation
‫معادله‬
Turns out
‫فوری‬
Stanzas

Disorientation ‫معلوم میشود‬

Splendor ‫بند‬

‫بی نظمی‬

‫شکوه‬
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Stardust
‫گرد و غبار ستاره ای‬
Astrophysical
‫نجومی‬
Denser
‫متراکم کننده‬
Roiling
‫رولینگ‬
Plasma
‫پالسما‬
In awe of
‫در وحشت از‬
Inflation

Singularity ‫تورم‬

Friction ‫تکینگی‬

Crunch ‫اصطکاک‬

Rip ‫ترد شدن‬

‫پاره كردن‬
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1. How far can we look at the universe?

a) 15 billion b) 13.8 billion 11.5 billion

2. What do scientists try to figure out by studying the stars that are so far from us?
a) How large the universe is.
b) How did the universe expand.
c) How did the universe begin.

3. Dark energy something that ….

a) seems to be expanding the universe.
b) absorbs all the light from the stars.
c) makes stars die away.

4. What can be among the properties of the multiverse?

a) They may have different rules of physics.
b) They all share the same history.
c) Their future can be predicted to be the same.

5. What is K.M's idea about time and space?

a) They can be s.th like an object.
b) They are difficult for us to experience.
c) Universe is not made up of them.
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