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What is the shape of space?
- Koshkin 9y agoNice video, short... One possible answer to the question why the universe is the way it is, is that it is the one that has survived (and had a chance to evolve), while others - non-flat, or having different values of fundamental constants, were crippled to the point that they could not.
- mcguire 9y agoIt's a sphere whose circumference is everywhere and whose center is nowhere. Is this a trick question?
- JadeNB 9y ago> It's a sphere whose circumference is everywhere and whose center is nowhere. Is this a trick question? For what it's worth, the classical quote to this effect (by 'Trismegistus', Google informs me), discussing God, switches the circumference and the centre from the way that you have them. (Maybe that's the joke.)
- mcguire 9y agoSee also Borges (http://www.filosofiaesoterica.com/pascals-sphere/ http://www.filosofiaesoterica.com/pascals-sphere/). "Maybe that's the joke." I can never remember which is the joke and which isn't.