From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 02:00:21 MDT
Emlyn:
> See, this is where I haven't been paying
attention to physics. If space
> itself can expand, rather than the things in it
merely getting further from
> each other, how can we perceive that?
Imagine a dark blue balloon with dots of pink
color on it. If you blow up the balloon, the dots
move away from each another. The expanding part
of this system is the skin of the balloon, not
the dots. But you have the impression that the
dots are also moving. Now think of the balloon
skin as space time, while the dots are the
galaxies.
And you might be God performing that very special
blow job.
humania
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