• Question: What shape is the Universe?

    Asked by doppler to Adam, Sheila, Suzie on 24 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Suzie Sheehy

      Suzie Sheehy answered on 24 Mar 2011:

      Good question! Since it’s my policy not to google if I don’t know something for this competition, and I did have to read up a bit on this, I’ll just send you the link:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_Universe
      Let me know if you have any questions about it and I hope I’ll be able to help!
      (P.S. I can see who you’re voting for!!) 🙁

    • Photo: Sheila Kanani

      Sheila Kanani answered on 24 Mar 2011:

      Depends what model you believe in! Some people think it is cube shaped, others a saddle shape….who knows!

    • Photo: Adam Tuff

      Adam Tuff answered on 24 Mar 2011:

      There’s many different ideas, again, it’s kind of difficult to see a shape as it’s a projection of space-time. There is a density parameter omega that relates to the curvature of space, and this depends on your universe being either homogenous or inhomogenous, isotropic or not. I don’t know if we’ve tested either, as we only one place in space to observe from!

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