The shape of the universe could be asymmetric or lopsided, meaning not the same in every direction

https://theconversation.com/the-universe-may-be-lopsided-new-research-265256

10 Comments

  1. I understand we need to observe things before claiming this but did anyone really expect anything different? The “known universe” suffered from the same perspectives that had us believing the earth was the center of everything.

  2. We will literally never know because we can only see what the speed of light has allowed us to see, which is a sphere inside of the universe.

  3. I was going to Subir Sarkar has been talking about this for (at least 5) years, then I see that he was the author of this article. Which actually makes me kinda sad that this idea hasn’t caught on or spread to more folks yet. Isotropy was a crude assumption to begin with, and it should never be taken for a fact.

  4. I have often observed swirls and counterswirls made by oars in still waters, and pondered whether the universe is like one of those swirls, but then I realize it is nonsense.

  5. It is probably still symmetric or in another orderly, circling or flowery form like all objects in space.