Scientists are exploring the possibility of non-trivial or exotic topologies of the Universe to explain certain anomalies observed in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), according to a new ...

They hope that by finding patterns in some of these large-scale structures, tiny irregularities involving quantum effects in the earliest days of the universe might be revealed ... String theory is ...

That instead of living in a universe with three dimensions of space ... Whether in the form of loop quantum gravity, causal dynamical trangulation or something else, the true nature of a theory ...