Categories: Comparisons
An example of an analogy used to explain a scientific idea:
"The conventional version of inflation says that our entire visible Universe is just one of many bubbles of inflation, each doing their own thing somewhere out in an eternal sea of chaotic inflation, but that the process of rapid inflation forces spacetime in all the bubbles to be flat. A useful analogy is with the bubbles that form in a bottle of fizzy cola when the top is opened."
John Gribbin (1996) Companion to the Cosmos. (Ed. Mary Gribbin) Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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