this summary doesn’t have some information that is pretty critical if you want to compare it to the meme
Searches for that simple 3-torus have come up empty. But scientists haven’t yet searched for some 3-torus variations. For example, the sides of the cube might be twisted relative to one another. In such a universe, exiting the top of the cube would bring you back to the bottom, but rotated by, for example, 180 degrees.
So to ruin thine dreams, a summary:
Season 10 was in 1998
A “donut-shaped” universe (3-torus) was proposed in 1984 (the paper also points out it’s the simplest finite 3d topology, so it’s probably been considered even earlier)
This article talks about more complicated “donut shapes” that haven’t been ruled out before
this summary doesn’t have some information that is pretty critical if you want to compare it to the meme
So to ruin thine dreams, a summary:
Season 10 was in 1998
A “donut-shaped” universe (3-torus) was proposed in 1984 (the paper also points out it’s the simplest finite 3d topology, so it’s probably been considered even earlier)
This article talks about more complicated “donut shapes” that haven’t been ruled out before