Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:28:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fw: Universe as Doughnut: New Data, New Debate
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

--- ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> Universe as Doughnut: New Data, New Debate
> NYT March 11, 2003
> By DENNIS OVERBYE
>
> Rather than being infinite in all directions, as the
> most
> fashionable theory suggests, the universe could be
> radically smaller in one direction than the others.
> As a
> result it may be even be shaped like a doughnut.
>
> "There's a hint in the data that if you traveled far
> and
> fast in the direction of the constellation Virgo,
> you'd
> return to Earth from the opposite direction," said
> Dr. Max
> Tegmark, a cosmologist at the University of
> Pennsylvania.
>

...but not for a while.

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