[Sephiroth]

The expanding balloon analogy is totally flawed, imo. One has to consider what is causing the universe to expand. It could be one of three choices:

1. A big bang, so big and sufficiently "recent" for expansion to still be occurring.

2. An unknown process where matter is being spontaneously created and filling in the universe. Why the latter (so-called Dark Matter) should cause expansion when gravity might suggest otherwise is beyond me; and I haven't found that question addressed by the scientists.

3. We haven't go a bloody clue what's really going on. Hence my reversion to logic.