This New Scientist article by Leah Crane is a plot-device-generator gift for science fiction writers. It begins: “Travel far enough in the universe and you could end up back where you began. Measurements from the Planck space observatory have shown that the universe might be shaped like a sphere rather than a flat sheet, which […]
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The quest for the most spherical bubble
This study tells of progress in the quest for the most spherical bubble: “The quest for the most spherical bubble: experimental setup and data overview,” Danail Obreschkow, Marc Tinguely, Nicolas Dorsaz, Philippe Kobel, Aurele de Bosset, Mohamed Farhat, Experiments in Fluids, April 2013, 54:1503. (Thanks to investigator Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.) […]