From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 10:23:08 MDT
eugene explained:
<<Not really, because the rubber skin is meant to be a 2d model of the
universe. If you want a 3d analogy, think dough with embedded raisins
increasing volume due to yeast's carbon dioxide. The average distance
between each raisin increases.>>
Dough and raisins are fine. T There is a physical limit to the domain called
the cake. Beyond it may lie a 4d + hyperspace, to all vectors of the
expanding cake. With the Balloon, there is still and inside or an outside,
and the skin that forms the balloon, you realize, also has a depth to it,
however narrow, and there is space inside and outside the Balloon. With the
Balloon, it is still astronomers asking us to have faith in their world-view.
With the cake and raisins model, its obviously better, but then begs the
question of where the universe is and how it correlates with other "objects"
outside the dimensions of the wonder-cake.
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