Agreed. There's a number of illustrations that make bad
   analogies that "stick". Another is the use of pool balls. Plus
   the overuse of "spooky/mysterious" for anything non-classical. I
   could go on. == The trick (and it's not easy) is moving from a
   vantage point of: "object is compressing due to compression of
   spacetime" towards "object has the appearance of compression
   because spacetime geometry is moving in a direction (dimension)
   we can't perceive". The Flatlanders story is fantastic for this
   one. == Michael, it's a small science forum on the far corner of
   the Internet. It's relative importance in the entire history of
   the cosmos is not even measurable. If someone gets something
   wrong, teach. If you can't teach, battling serves little
   function. ==