16 Jan
2015
16 Jan
'15
8:31 p.m.
It's not a model, it's an analogy minus a dimension- or ten. Yes, it has problems, but it illustrates the concept of an inflating universe with no center of expansion. Good enough for the chalkboard. I'm assigning you to come up with a better teaching model. ;-) On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Siegfried Jachmann <siegfried@jachmann.org> wrote:
There is no tunneling. We simply don't have a valid model. The only way the balloon universe works is if 'our' universe is only the thickness of the balloon material and we are not aware of the rest of it.