hypersphere
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“Dante has invented a new topological space, the 3-sphere,” or hypersphere, mathematician Mark Peterson noted in an analysis.
From Washington Post • May 24, 2019
The Relativistic picture of the cosmos is a four-dimensional sphere�or, more exactly, a "hypersphere," since an ordinary sphere can have only three dimensions.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hypersphere is curved, so it must close back on itself and therefore be finite�but only if the curvature is positive.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hypersphere is expanding from a point, like a four-dimensional balloon being inflated, creating in every instant more space in the universe.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Sometime after the expansion begins, galaxies condense and are carried outward on the surface of the hypersphere.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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