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Ricky
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Posted - 08/13/2004 :  12:45:58  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
I read on a website that NASA was trying to do something with triangles in space which would tell them what shape the universe was in.

The idea is that if you take a triangle and its degrees add up to exactly 180, then you are in a flat universe. If the degrees go over 180, then you are in a sphere shaped universe. If the degrees are less than 180, then you are in a "Saddle shappend" universe (negitive curvature).

Now I have found one site that claims that NASA was somehow setting up a huge triangle in space to measure it (it was only one sentance, didn't go into how or when), and another saying that the evidence we know now suggests that of a flat universe. I tried looking on google for more recent things on this but couldn't find any, and NASA's site seems to have a really crappy search (it gave me things no where near what I searched for), so I was wondering if anyone knows any more about this?

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The latest scientific evidence suggests that the flat universe is the shape of our universe


http://www.light-science.com/universecurve.html

I can't find my other link right now, I'll see if I can find it later.
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