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Keith Cooper

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: What is the shape of the universe - The Untold Story

Oval shape image with bright purple light in the center and reddish patches at the top and bottom. .

complex to measure the shape of the universe. In fact, this question has a very counterintuitive answer, because when we think of the shape of something, we might imagine an object seen from its exterior.

We should not think of the universe in the same way. The universe doesn't have an outer perimeter, and nothing exists outside it, because there isn't an outside.

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