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Could the Universe be shaped like a donut?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is That a Doughnut?

A doughnut is positively curved on its surface. A mathematically doughnut is technically flat. We're measuring the universe tobe a little positive curvature. But what we're seeing is that at very, very large angles, there aren't as many correlations as we expect. And so when people go out and measure this stuff, they see that mostly, but some of those lumps seem to be missing.

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