Borsuk–Ulam theorem

Informally, the Borsuk–Ulam theorem states that, for a "balloon animal" (or any arbitrarily distorted shape) made out of a spherical balloon, and then squashed into a plane (letting the air out somehow), at least one pair of points that were opposite each other on the original sphere will be squashed onto the same point of the plane.

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