The word 'flatness' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a quality or characteristic of something that is flat, or to emphasize that something is perfectly flat. For example: "The flatness of the surface made it ideal for skating."
If the universe is nearly flat now, it must have been ridiculously, improbably flat to begin with.Some people might accept this primordial flatness as a fact of nature, but most astronomers, particularly Dr Guth, are too stubborn for that.
"Lukashenka gives us money," says an elderly passer-by, "what do they give us?"Getting used to horrible thingsThe parts of its history that seems to have most shaped the sensibility of Belarus are the wars that have been fought across its invitingly flat land (though its forests proved as hospitable to partisans as the flatness did to cavalry, and later tanks).
Three massive temples, built by the Greeks, tower over the ironing-board flatness of the surrounding marshes that lead to the sea - marshes that once harboured the malaria that drove away the city's population and left it a romantic, ghostly ruin.
The Oxford study also found that comedians often display depressive traits such as emotional flatness and detachment from others.
They long to be independent, to get away from the place where everyone knows their business, to escape "the sins of the Midwest, the flatness, the emptiness, the necessary acceptance of the familiar".
Trained in traditional Japanese art, Mr Murakami coined the term "Superflat" for his theory about the similarities between the formal, decorative flatness of Japanese painting and the shallow, glossed fantasies of popular Japanese cartoons.
"Chez Mondrian", now an emblem of avant-garde photography, shows how Kertész, using a vase, creates a formal harmony between geometric shapes, light and dark, flatness and the perspective created by the curved staircase in the background.
More dimensions, it seems, are better than less.Yet, when it comes to building circuits with light, the failure of photons (the particles of which light is composed) to squeeze into flatness has made them less, not more, useful.
Not only would that benefit poor people now, it would also equip them better to deal with the risks that climate change brings.After all, the reason why Bangladesh is so vulnerable to a one-metre rise in the sea level is not just its flatness; it is also its poverty, as a result of which too many of its people live on subsistence agriculture around the Bay of Bengal.
His theory of inflation explains the flatness as another consequence of the hyperactive bloating of the universe during its first split-second of existence.
Relativity theory says that even a tiny departure from flatness in the early universe would be amplified over time, so that the universe today would be either extremely open or closed.
