So how would we know if we lived inside a 3-torus universe? The way space bends back on itself would mean that we would see repeat images of the same part of the universe in different parts of the ...
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have long understood that the universe is expanding—in other words, the space in between cosmic objects that aren’t bound by gravity is getting ...
And Mandelbrot himself wondered if the universe is a fractal. If, as we zoom out, we will see the same kinds of structures appearing again and again. And in a way, that's what we see: a hierarchy ...