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Klein bottle” sounds like it should be an object of some sort. But it’s not. It’s a shape. Moreover, in three dimensional space.

The closest shape to a Klein bottle would be a torus. A torus is the shape of a doughnut or O-ring. It is a hollow tube whose ends have been joined. As a result it has a separate inside and outside.

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Klein bottle

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It's a surface whose top and bottom are the same (non-orientable object). So, the Mobius strip is a one-sided strip (non-orientable). The Klein bottle extends this to the next dimension, which takes the object into a fourth spatial dimension. People only observe three spatial dimensions. Projecti...

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And it doesn’t have an edge. Or, as the mathematicians would say, it doesn’t have a boundaryA Klein bottle is also a hollow tube whose ends have been joined. However, before the ends are joined one end passes through the wall of the tube, like a ghost through a wall, and travels down the tube to ...

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