From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 05:57:45 MDT
Humania said:
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>>
The balloon analogy, that astronomers frequently use, really stinks. Why?
Because balloons have a space inside (when inflated) and there is the
tremendously larger outside region, which is the room, building,
atmosphere;etc. It mis-describes what they are trying (wrongly) to convey.
They imagine a "balloon that inflates, which neither has an inside, nor an
outside. This is logically impossible, and thus is an impossible model. Or it
is the correct physical model, but the astronomers are reluctant to admit the
ramifications of this unhappy balloon. Just click your heals together and
have faith in us, and ignore the man behind the curtain. Sigh.
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