Hey Loudmouth. I just wanted to give you a heads up on your
description of the universe. While the balloon analogy is often used
to explain the universe, you don't seem to have gotten it quite right.
The analogy of the balloon makes a parrallel with the entire (not just the edge)expanding universe and the
surface of the balloon.
Here's a pictorial version courtasy of google:
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/balloon0.html
I suppose you could say that by looking out into space, we are looking back in time and therefore looking back into the center of the "balloon". But we don't in any sense live "inside" the ballon as you seem to suggest. Perhaps you already knew this and I'm nitpicking, but I've been reading for a while now and you seem to be one of the more insightful posters, so I'd hate for you to have the wrong information.
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