The Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric - which was developed independently by the named authors in the 1920s and 1930s - describes a universe that is path-connected (it has a path from a point x to a point y in a topological space). But it's not necessarily simply connected.

Informally - if an object in space consists of one piece and does not have any "holes" that pass all the way through it, it is called simply connected. A doughnut (and the figure-8 Klein bottle it resembles) is “holey” and not simply connected (they're multiply connected). Referring to the infinite universe [see text associated with Figure 1] - a flat universe that is also simply connected implies an infinite universe. [Luminet, Jean-Pierre; Lachi`eze-Rey, Marc: “Cosmic Topology” - Physics Reports 254 (3): 135–214 (1995) arXiv:gr-qc/9605010] So it seems the infinite universe cannot be composed of topological subunits called figure-8 Klein bottles (flat universes that are finite in extent include the torus and Klein bottle). But the changing of the Klein bottle’s shape by binary digits composing photons and gravitons mimics the process of gaps in, or irregularities between, figure-8 Klein bottles being “filled in” by binary digits in the same way that computer drawings can extrapolate a small patch of blue sky to make a sky that’s blue from horizon to horizon. This ensures the positive and negative shapes in different figure-8 Klein bottles are precisely joined, and makes space-time relatively smooth and continuous as Einstein thought. Plus - it gets rid of holes, making figure-8 Klein subunits feasible.

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