The Unintuitive Consequences of Cosmology

The shape of the universe is one of the big questions in cosmology. It's not going to make your car run faster or put more food on the table, but it's just like aesthetically attractive as a question. So why are some sort of like, more aesthetically interesting? For an audience member who is not a physicist, this question is like, the universe can be curved in different ways that depend on how much stuff is in the universe.