This is a model of the universe created by three artistic designers named To22 that worked on this project. They named it #5 Universe Ring. This model of the universe is based on an increasingly popular theory of the universe that says that the universe is not actually flat, circular, spherical or saddle-shaped. It is rather a “3-torus”, which means that is shaped like a donut. The theory also states that the universe might be bigger than we imagined.
The piece of art looks like an ordinary ring at a glance, but if looked at closely, there is small speck on it. From far it might look like an imperfection on the surface of the ring, but if it is examined, one can see that the speck is actually a carefully placed and designed in the shape of a wine glass, which represents the area of the universe that is known to us. The wine glass- like stucture also represents the universe at its inception, which is the Big Bang, depicted by the stem of the glass and later of the expansion of it, in our present state.
The artists’ purpose in making this object was to show how small the known universe stands against all the unknowns.
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