Jean Pierre Luminet dictates a lecture about the size of the Universe

 

Since astronomy is part of human knowledge we have wondered, what is the size of the universe? Jean Pierre Luminet, famed French astrophysicist has developed a model to try to achieve that goal.

With a presentation called "The Shape of Space from Black Holes to the Wraparound Universe", Dr. Lumnet literally transported people to a 3D universe, in which he showed his three-dimensional model called "Space Dodecahedron. "

This research borned in 2003 where the astronomer design a model about the size of the space who was then confirmed by satellite observations. This model  is fully explained in the book "L‘Univers Chiffonné", ie, the Universe wrinkled.

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