[Physicist]

If only this story had broken in the previous Science Times, the announcement of the Doughnut Universe would have been made on Fasnacht Day, the traditional doughnut-eating holiday of the Pennsylvania Dutch.

The temporal alignment of Doughnut Universe and Doughnut Day, along with the geographic alignment of the Pennsylvania Dutch with the University of Pennsylvania, would have beaten the statistical crap out of any multipole alignment you care to model.

Alas, it was not to be.

[MHGinTN]

Well doughnut would work, if the spatial universe began as a linerar phenomenon, then went planar, then volumetric ... forms a doughnut, among other 'shapes'. I wonder, does the distortion potential of the temporal influence make the spatial expression change from linear to planar to volumetric? [I know, I should just stay on the porch and let the big dogs run ...}