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Think about a torus-chess-board [0]. While it is locally flat, it is finite, unbounded and you would travel back where you started. Curvature cannot give a sound argument as to whether the universe is finite or infinite.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder_chess#Horizontal_Cyli...




The better term related to curvature would be if it's bounded or unbounded.


Or the more relevant link might be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus#Flat_torus




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