No-one: Dan, I see the donut-shaped universe idea is back in the news. Didn't you write about that in the last century?
Me: Yes; yes I did. A big eight-page spread in @SkyandTelescope, July 1999, on the topology of the universe: (#space #physics #donuts)
Me: Yes; yes I did. A big eight-page spread in @SkyandTelescope, July 1999, on the topology of the universe: (#space #physics #donuts)
And look how they wrapped the headline around the first double-page spread, Pac-Man style. Pretty neat (and apt)!
And actually it all started (for me, anyway) with a workshop that @gstarkman organized at @cwru back in 1997. Good (and simpler) times!
Ok, one more thing on the subject of universes and donuts: We all remember that Homer Simpson proposes the idea of a donut-shaped universe to Stephen Hawking (who says he might steal it). So I checked when that episode of The Simpsons aired... (cont'd)
...and apparently it first aired on May 9, 1999. In other words, it aired after I handed in my story to @SkyandTelescope, but before the magazine was actually published. Wacky coincidence! (I guess the idea of donut-shaped universes was "in the air" in those days. :) )
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