LINKTV Witness February 21, 2013
Of course, were already inside the universe. And this is just what we imagine part of its shape to be. And mathematicians are imagining and discovering the shape of everything from the cosmos to the microcosmos, including the smallest strands of dna. So welcome to the world of. Topology. We can begin to understand this most amazing branch of mathematics with a simple game of asteroids. Consider the universe of a video game. On the surface, it looks like a twodimensional square section of the standard euclidean plane that we learned about in high school. But Something Interesting happens when o...