Universe is Finite, Soccer Ball Shaped Well, another group, another claim ... and I'm planning on not getting too excited about this one. After all, it has been going back and forth for a number of years now. It does make an interesting read though. Jeffrey Weeks (a genius) and researchers from the University of Paris have, through observations using NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, have found evidence that the universe is dodecahedral shaped, and finite (but what is outside it ...). They've published their findings in Nature.