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Is the Universe Shaped Like a Funnel?
DrMorpheus writes "A new theory of the shape of the Cosmos posits that the Universe may be shaped like a medieval horn, according to Frank Steiner at the University of Ulm. This theory, if true, could explain several strange observations about the microwave background radiation. The Universe would be stretched out at one end into a long tube and flared out into a bell at the opposite end. The technical name for this shape is a 'Picard topology'. To quote the article, '...our Universe is curved like a Pringle, shaped like a horn, and named after a Star Trek character. You could not make it up.'"
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The universe is made up of 5 basic things:
1. Movement. (Time = Movement.).
2. Matter
3. Anti-Matter
5. Energy
6. Anti-Energy
Knowing this, means that lack of movement = time slows. Eventually if you go fast enough, time is altered (speed of energy/light).
So if this is the case, it's possible to imagine a horn shape that overlaps itself at the end (imagine if you crossed the outter lines of the universe you would actually end up at the other end of the universe, much like the worm-hole theory.
If this is the case, it would be easy to create many working models of a universe with different shapes, sizes, expanding, collapsing models, it would almost explain them all, which is why it's so easy to "prove" your theories with small models. The key is, to look at smaller and smaller particles, to get the "bigger" picture, which is exactly what studing anti-matter is all about.
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