What's up with the Doughnut Theory?

Question

So regarding the idea that the universe is set up like a doughnut, where if you go long enough in one direction, that you'll end up in the same place again. How would that work? Would there be an infinite number of giant interconnected doughnuts to make up space?

Would this be a spherical plane (I'm sure that this isn't the right terminology, but I forgot what it's called. like the plane over the earth...) in three dimensions? I've heard before that the universe can't be a Euclidian space, so does that mean that it has to be parabolic or the sphere one? or is there another kind of plane that I don't know about?

Sorry that's a lot of questions in one.

Answer 1

Fortunatly, I can help you.

Let's start with the easy questions. Euclidian space is two dimentional. This cannot work in a three dimentional Universe. In Euclidian Geometry, if you take a line to start, then draw two other lines at right angles to the first line, they will never intersect.

In three dimentional space, this does not work. Start with a line around a sphere, like the Equator, then draw lines at right angles to the Equator (Lines of Longitude), they meet at the poles and are not paralell.

The Doughnut 'Theory' isn't a theory, really, so much as it is a way of helping you to visualize something that cannot be visualized normaly.

Take a peice of paper, this represents your Universe. There are edges, so it's finite. You are a two dimentional creature on the surface of the paper. Now roll it into a tube and bend it (Forgetting that it crumples) so the ends of the tube touch eachother. Now, if you walked far enough in any direction, you would end up where you started. This seems crazy to you, because you are two dimentional and your Universe is curved three dimentionaly, in a way you cannot possibly comprehend.

Now imagine you are three dimentional and the paper is bent in the same way, but four dimentionaly (You can't actually imagine that.). That's what is meant by the Doughnut, but that is just a way of visualizing.

The Universe is more of a Hyper-dimentional (4D) Sphere. (According to recent data, a Hyper-Decdahedron. Neat!) But that would be harder to describe.

I hope that helped!

I'm going home now.

Answer 2

Einsteinian Physics is a major branch of modern Physics believed to have been invented by the notable Physicist, Jeremaiah Einstein, though Harry Potter and other physicists have notably claimed to have done so before. Currently, it is the best model of the phenomenon observed when a massive, relativistic object strikes a coffee cup. Einstein first noticed this interaction when sitting at a restaurant table in Bedford Stuyvesant and his coffee cup exploded in a wave of scalding coffee. This was caused by a bullet passing through his coffee cup at high velocity. Since then, his theories have taken the world by storm. It has then been noted on the hit documentary series Family Guy that J. Einstein actually stole the idea from a Mr. Smith... that filthy bugger.

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The first theory he developed was that the universe is Doughnut shaped. Not like a normal doughnut, but like a hyper-doughnut. That's where you take a normal doughnut, unroll it, build more doughnuts off of that and then roll the original doughnut up again. Like a hyper-cube but more complex. This would explain things about the universe, such as cosmological folds. His reasoning being that it is the only way for a cup of coffee to explode when struck by a fast moving particle. Since to a topologist a cup of coffee is the exact same thing as a doughnut, this makes perfect sense.

The second theory he developed is that coffee is hot. Now, some may claim he wasn't the first to state this theory, but Einstein was the first to have it successfully published in a journal of science. The breakthrough moment on this theory occurred when Einstein's legs and torso were severely scalded by coffee.down as the Theory of Relativity, which has conclusively proven that pi has approximately 2^88888888388 digits in total, and not 2 more than that number as previously supposed. It was Einstein's life work and would take the rest of his life to complete.

Answer 3

Donuts are a means of space/time compression such that the time experienced between clocking on and clocking off is exactly equal to the number of donuts eaten ...