# A spherical Universe?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-spherical-universe/843050>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 5, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-spherical-universe/843050 "2019-11-05T19:47:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-spherical-universe/843050/35 "2019-11-11T22:07:38Z")

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> [@Enola\_Straight](#):
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> Kind of like the old video game Asteroids…you leave off one side of the screen and re-enter the opposite side.
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> [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448155&highlight=asteroids](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448155&highlight=asteroids)

I was never sure, are those games\* spherical\* worlds, or _toroidal_? Or is it possible to distinguish the two given what we know (that going past the top of the screen brings you back to the bottom, and going past the left edge brings you to the right side, and vice versa)?

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