Brown
13th March 2003, 07:19 PM
Here is a link to the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/science/space/11COSM.html) doughnut article referred to in today's broadcast. Registration may be required, and the link to this article may expire.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 may be even be shaped like a doughnut.