{"id":207402,"date":"2025-02-28T03:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/science-of-knots-could-help-us-imagine-our-universes-weird-shape"},"modified":"2025-02-28T03:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:13:12","slug":"science-of-knots-could-help-us-imagine-our-universes-weird-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/science-of-knots-could-help-us-imagine-our-universes-weird-shape","title":{"rendered":"Science of Knots Could Help Us Imagine Our Universe\u2019s Weird Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-of-knots-could-help-us-imagine-our-universes-weird-shape2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you\u2019re living on a flat plane. After all, this is why you can navigate a new city using a map: a flat piece of paper that represents all the places around you.<\/p>\n<p>This is likely why some people in the past believed the Earth to be flat. But most people now know that is far from the truth.<\/p>\n<p>You live on the surface of a giant sphere, like a beach ball the size of the Earth with a few bumps added. The surface of the sphere and the plane are two possible 2D spaces, meaning you can walk in two directions: north and south or east and west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you\u2019re living on a flat plane. After all, this is why you can navigate a new city using a map: a flat piece of paper that represents all the places around you. This is likely why some people in the past believed the Earth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}