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Old 30-October-2007, 05:27 PM
Fortunate Fortunate is offline
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OK, back from a lunch run.

As someone on the balloon travels along a geodesic to another point on the expanding balloon, his or her path in the embedding space traces out a segment of a spiral, always in the same plane, but of increasing radius. But remember that the embedding space corresponds spacetime. I think that the angle between two vectors tangent to the balloon at the same point would remain constant as the ballon expanded.

Last edited by Fortunate; 31-October-2007 at 03:11 AM.
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