This book has the merit of exploring avenues lower profile on the "shape" of space-time. The author masters his subject as well as more known as Anglo-Saxon ... However, as the number of books dealing universe models, we feel the shortage of arguments that can support these theories in the real world ... One would like to delve into the intricacies of these possible topologies, carried by the enthusiasm of the author, but here, nothing so far did not bring water to the mill. The scientific data becoming increasingly difficult, time consuming and expensive to obtain, theorists have become the mentors of astrophysics. and JP Luminet was beautiful with all his might call a hypothetical confirmation of his ideas by the cosmic background radiation, his book remains a friendly little treatise on geometry, some chapters are particularly indigestible. The repetitions are ubiquitous and we sometimes feel back, references in this annex are constantly losing the thread of the discourse. The author warns that reading can be nonlinearly ... Sorry, but I need to enjoy a book, a frame and follow a logical path, not decipher the architecture of a textbook . There is a form of contradiction between poetry potentially underlying these theories and the Benedictine denial of the author to clarify constantly the precise meaning of the words used, so much so that he ends up killing which was to be a pretty popular work. Shame ...