Admit it. We all have our favorite world map, where the place we call home sits right at the center. When that world map is flipped upside down or shifted to the left or right, everything feels… unbalanced.
Last year, a group of researchers revealed their reimagined version of the planet in a double-sided map. It's round, not unlike Earth, but also flat like a pancake – in an attempt to give us a less distorted view of the world.Princeton University astrophysicist J. Richard Gott, who designed the new spread with mathematician Robert Vanderbrei and physicist David Goldberg from Drexel University in Philadelphia.
on how lopsided or skewed they are, and how much areas and distances on the maps were bent out of shape.
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