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A cosmic hall of mirrors
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Conventional thinking says the universe is infinite. But it could be finite and relatively small, merely giving the illusion of a greater one, like a hall of mirrors. Recent astron…
New Developments in the Search for the Topology of the Universe
Jean-Philippe Uzan, Roland Lehoucq, Jean-Pierre Luminet
Multi-connected Universe models with space idenfication scales smaller than the size of the observable universe produce topological images in the catalogs of cosmic sources. In thi…
Topology of the Universe: Theory and Observations
Jean-Pierre Luminet, Boudewijn F. Roukema
``One could imagine that as a result of enormously extended astronomical experience, the entire universe consists of countless identical copies of our Milky Way, that the infinite…
Past and Future of Cosmic Topology
Jean-Pierre Luminet
In the first part I set out some unexplored historical material about the early development of cosmic topology. In the second part I briefly comment new developments in the field s…