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### Excluding big bang itself, does spacetime have a boundary?

My understanding of big bang cosmology and General Relativity is that both matter and spacetime emerged together (I'm not considering time zero where there was a singularity). Does this mean that ...
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### (Co)homology of the universe

In this post let $U$ be the universe considered as a manifold. From what I gather we don't really have any firm evidence whether the universe is closed or open. The evidence seems to point towards it ...
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### What is the fate of a 3-Torus universe?

Since it is flat, will it expand forever like a flat and open universe or collapse like a closed and curved universe?
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### The topology of a “closed” universe - is it really closed?

The spatial part of the positive curvature FRW metric has the form \begin{equation} ds^2=\frac{dr^2}{1-(r/R)^2}+r^2d\Omega^2 \end{equation} or \begin{equation} ds^2=R^2(d\chi^2+\sin{\chi}^2d\Omega^2) ...
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### Shape of the universe?

What is the exact shape of the universe? I know of the balloon analogy, and the bread with raisins in it. These clarify some points, like how the universe can have no centre, and how it can expand ...
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