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Geometry of the Universe

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A neat way of measuring the geometry of the Universe offers a new test of the standard cosmological model. It probes, among other things, the elusive dark energy thought to be driving the Universe's expansion. See Letter p.539

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Figure 1: The principle of Marinoni and Buzzi's cosmological technique1.

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  1. Alan Heavens is at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK. afh@roe.ac.uk ,

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Heavens, A. Geometry of the Universe. Nature 468, 511–512 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468511a

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