Recent content by Chilli

Hello Geronimo, I've no desire to ditch the balloon analogy. The stated objective of this thread is to: "...simply discuss the balloon analogy. Get clear on it. Find out any problems people have with it, if there are some." (refer quote below) I think Marcus is being sincere and helpful...

Yes, but I don't have trouble picturing the expansion of distance between gravitationally sticky blobs. You do, indeed! (I did say my math was lacking.) An optimistic prediction, but I say hold that dream! Agreed. I get that photons traveling at the speed of light can find themselves...

Marcus, thank you for your explanation and for your kind welcome! Let’s see if I’m getting any closer … Setting aside post-inflationary expansion (because I really don’t have the math), say I am at location B, and it’s 13.7 billion years o’clock. I am receiving CMB radiation that was emitted...

On the balloon analogy and the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation ... If a particle radiates from location A in the direction of location B, once it leaves location A it is no longer there, although A may remain the particle's apparent location from any number of viewing perspectives over...