• Donkter@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    This model does assume the big bang happened in a spheroid pattern. It’s just flattened to add time as an axis from left to right cause you couldn’t represent time otherwise.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      10 hours ago

      You could represent time as the distance from center to circumference, although that wouldn’t be as readily comprehensible at a glance. It’s more like the image just shows a chunk out of that sphere