From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 06:17:28 MDT
At 07:57 AM 8/15/02 EDT, Mitch wrote:
>The balloon analogy, that astronomers frequently use, really stinks.
True. The simplification they should stick to, although maybe it's regarded
as too `girly' (ugh, *cooking*, we don't need to know about no steenking
*cooking*) is the cake or fruitloaf that expands in all directions as it's
heated and cooked, moving all the raisins apart from each other in an
unprejudiced way; the raisins, like galaxies, retain their integrity.
Damien Broderick
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