• Question: Do you believe that the universe is saddle-shaped?

    Asked by stabbypete to Alan, Murray, Sarah on 25 Mar 2011.
    • Photo: Murray Collins

      Murray Collins answered on 24 Mar 2011:

      Stabby-P

      Honestly I don’t know. I don’t know enough (barely any) of the maths and physics that goes into those predictions into the spatial structure of the universe.

      Something that does puzzle me though is the conception of the universe which has distinct borders, which means that it would stop at some point, I suppose at the edge of the front of universal expansion. But what’s on the other side of that? Think I may be confusing myself and you here, so I’ll stop.

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 25 Mar 2011:

      I don’t think the universe strictly has a shape. I guess it would probably look like a massive squidgy jelly fish, because technically the universe goes beyond geometry, curvature and shape, and it’s contantly changing, who knows where it’s edges are. I think there is nothing outside the universe, I don’t really think a true edge exists.

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