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More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

Observations show the universe appears flat, yet its true size and global shape beyond the observable horizon may remain forever unknown.

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