[extropy-chat] down the universal rabbit hole

[Damien Broderick]

This is a month old, but hey, it's news from Dr Frank Stein:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994879

< Could the Universe be shaped like a medieval horn? It may sound like a 
surrealist's dream, but according to Frank Steiner at the University of Ulm 
in Germany, recent observations hint that the cosmos is stretched out into 
a long funnel, with a narrow tube at one end flaring out into a bell. It 
would also mean that space is finite. >