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<p>(a <a href="page.php?w=tangent_plane">tangent plane</a>) to a small and close enough observer, all 3-manifolds look like our universe to a small enough observer. This is made more precise in the definition below.</p>

<p><big>Principles</big></p>
<p><big>Definition</big></p>
<p>A <a href="page.php?w=topological_space">topological space</a>  is a 3-manifold if it is a <a href="page.php?w=second-countable">second-countable</a> <a href="page.php?w=Hausdorff_space">Hausdorff space</a> and if every point in  has a <a href="page.php?w=neighbourhood_%28mathematics%29">neighbourhood</a></p><p>
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