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Dr Luminet's calculations suggest that this weakness can be explained if the universe is finite and dodecahedron-shaped.
ECONOMIST: The shape of the universe
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For Jean-Pierre Luminet, of the Paris Observatory, and his colleagues believe that the universe is, indeed, a dodecahedron.
ECONOMIST: The shape of the universe
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The dodecahedron, however, corresponded to quintessence, the element of the heavens.
ECONOMIST: The shape of the universe
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The fifth, the dodecahedron, has pentagonal faces.
ECONOMIST: The shape of the universe
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But it is, quintessentially, a dodecahedron.
ECONOMIST: The shape of the universe