Re: Stupid Astrophysics question

[Alberto Monteiro]

Doug Pensinger wrote:
>

>The model most often used to describe the expanding universe is the "skin" of
>a balloon.  How literal is that example?  
>
That's a _model_. Literarity is irrelevant :-)

>Does all matter expand away from a
>point of origin leaving a void in the center?
>
There is no void, because everything "real" [measurable]
is the skin of the balloon.

Alberto Monteiro