{"id":15163,"date":"2003-03-11T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-11T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/11\/mmmmuniversal-donut\/"},"modified":"2003-03-11T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-11T14:51:00","slug":"mmmmuniversal-donut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/11\/mmmmuniversal-donut\/","title":{"rendered":"Mmmm&#8230;Universal Donut."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, new data suggests that the universe might be a much more complex shape than previously imagined.  The <i>New York Times<\/i> reports (free registration, sorry) that &ldquo;Rather than being infinite in all directions, as the most fashionable theory suggests, the universe could be radically smaller in one direction than the others. As a result <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/03\/11\/science\/space\/11COSM.html?8isc\" target=\"_blank\">it may be even be shaped like a doughnut<\/a>.&rdquo; Dr. Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the University of Pennsylvania, says, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a hint in the data that if you traveled far and fast in the direction of the constellation Virgo, you&rsquo;d return to Earth from the opposite direction.&rdquo;  <a href=\"http:\/\/sounds\/keanu_whoa.wav\" title=\"Keanu Whoa\" target=\"_blank\">Whoa.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"icons\/sound.gif\" alt=\"Keanu Whoa sound file\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90521759?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, new data suggests that the universe might be a much more complex shape than previously imagined. The New York Times reports (free registration, sorry) that &ldquo;Rather than being infinite in all directions, as the most fashionable theory suggests, the universe could be radically smaller in one direction than the others. As a result it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/11\/mmmmuniversal-donut\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mmmm&#8230;Universal Donut.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}