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S10E22 "They Saved Lisa's Brain"

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (14 children)

For those curious, the donut shaped universe shown isn't what the theoretical universe model actually looks like,

What it represents is an "asteroids like" geometry of a two dimensional universe where exiting one "side" brings you to a corresponding point on the other.

The proposed donut geometry of the universe is what's called a 3-roid or 3-tauroid, which is basically the same idea as the asteroids like 2D universe but for a prism instead of a rectangle. Meaning that our ability to return to the starting point is based on the fact that we are moving along a 3-D "surface" of a 4th dimensional object, the way the Asteroids ship loops back to the start by moving across the 2-dimensional surface of a 3-D geometry.

Part of me wonders if this means that the actual boundaries of the universe are at 0+ and 0- along the W/A axis in 4-D space, and if that means that every character who has some power related to moving in 4-D space would actually just fall out of space and time if they ever tried using their abilities for real.

[–] edgemaster72 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I think they covered what happens when you get to one side of the universe and keep going in a different episode

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"it's somewhere I haven't been before" "The shower"

[–] pwalshj 4 points 6 months ago

"It's like he just disappeared in to fat air."

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