What If the Universe Was Shaped Like a Donut?
The universe could be a donut in a fourth spatial dimension. Which would mean that we could potentially see our own galaxy repeated from the past... Our 3D brains aren t ready for this. Get your topological donut here: https://store.dftba.com/products/space-donut-mug Host: Reid Reimers For special, curated artifacts of this universe, check out https://scishowfinds.com/ ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Jerry Perez, Lazarus G, Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/science/universe-as-doughnut-new-data-new-debate.html https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/what-is-topology https://phys.org/news/2015-05-universe.html http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/cosmo/lectures/lec15.html http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Is_the_Universe_finite_or_infinite_An_interview_with_Joseph_Silk https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-few-of-my-favorite-spaces-the-three-torus/ https://www.nesi.org.nz/case-studies/studying-shape-and-size-universe https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mssl/news/mssl-news/news-q1-2015/planck -------- Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/single-pink-donut-gm696365602-128846505 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/chocolate-donut-font-concept-delicious-number-8-gm831656820-135276297 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/chocolate-donut-and-hot-coffee-gm517618915-48803692 http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0406a/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe#/media/File:End_of_universe.jpg https://youtu.be/ZtzKqfg-vH8 https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/media/121238/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1455.html
