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So Isaac Brock has been right for like 20 years? "The universe is shaped exactly like the earth. If you go straight long enough you end up where you were."
It's only one of many possibilities, we have no idea about the actual topology of the universe. It could also be infinite
Fuck
That fucks me up.
But also, if we could move through the earth itself we’d come to the ‘edge’ and eventually out onto the surface of the earth… right back where we started. Fuck.
Fuck.