# See all the way around the universe?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 17, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-all-the-way-around-the-universe/430352 "2007-12-17T17:23:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-all-the-way-around-the-universe/430352/5 "2007-12-17T19:01:15Z")

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The bug might also be right about there being only 2 dimensions, which wrap around, with no external up/down needing to exist at all. As in the OP’s example of Asteroids. Though Asteroids is at least Euclidean on sufficiently small scales, which the bug’s world is not.

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