Categories: Comparisons
An example of an analogy used to explain a science concept:
"The key point is that during inflation opposite regions of the Universe were blasted apart, in a sense, 'faster than light'. …This awesome expansion also ensures that spacetime gets highly flattened, in much the same way that the wrinkly surface of a prune becomes a smooth, flat surface when the prune is placed in water and swells up."
John Gribbin (1996) Companion to the Cosmos. (Ed. Mary Gribbin) Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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