OG wrote:

"jacob navia" wrote in message
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OG wrote:
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Now let's modify this to get closer to the *right* idea.
To change the mental image in your head, imagine that you are

looking at

the movie frame where the firework has just filled the hall -

everywhere

is filled with something. Now mentally play the movie backwards, but
imagine that the walls of the hall itself are moving back with the
firework. Instead of the explosion getting smaller inside the hall;

the

whole hall and explosion are getting smaller at the same time.

Then, the hall is shrinking *IN SPACE*. The concept of expansion
(or its opposite contraction) are irrevocably tied to the concept
of SPACE. There is *NO WAY OUT* of this contradiction.


I'm sure it doesn't really matter if you don't get a feel for it.


"But the Emperor has nothing on! said a little child.
And one person whispered to the other what the child
had said. "He has nothing on -- a child says he has nothing
on!

"But he has nothing on!" cried all the people. The Emperor
writhed, for he knew it was all true. But he thought "the
procession must go on now". So he held himself stiffer than
ever, and the chamberlains held up the invisible train.


H.C. Andersen. The Emperor's new clothes.