(November 26, 2010 at 9:47 pm)Ashendant Wrote: The universe is obviously not flat, we clearly live in a three-dimensional space, and for the universe to be flat we would need to live in a two-dimensional space.
It's referring to the curvature of the universe. Basically, the angles of a triangle will always add up to 180 degrees, as opposed to more than 180 degrees (closed/spherical), or less than 180 degrees (open).
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Though now that I'm looking in to three dimensional geometry... ow, my head hurts.
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