Categories: Comparisons
An example of an analogy used to illustrate a scientific idea:
"Across the entire disc of a galaxy like the Milky Way, the rotation speed is constant. This can only mean that the entire disc of bright stars is embedded in a much bigger halo of dark material, which carries the bright Galaxy around in its gravitational grip. The picture is rather like the way a thin layer of cream swirls around when it is stirred into a cup of dark coffee."
John Gribbin (1996) Companion to the Cosmos. (Ed., Mary Gribbin) Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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