My analogy is: The universe can be like that droplet of water in space. It expands in all directions, but if we could somehow go to the very border of the universe, a wall of universe, so to speak.... that wall may have a surface tension. And like the droplet, it reaches a certain diameter depending on it's volume, but retains the shape until that tension is broken. Anyhow within that droplet are millions of atomes, interacting with one another, repelling from one another, just like stars and galaxies, but all subject to that surface tension.
But that could be the vicadin talking....
Maybe you’ve got a Nitrous-oxyde leak?
That stuff never worked on me.
Interesting. I’m no scientist, but I know if you carefully over-fill a tumbler with water the surface of the water will actually be slightly higher then the rim of the container, and `crowned’ due to surface tension.
Add more water and eventually the tension is overcome (`explodes’, if you will) and water flows down the side of the glass.
In your analogy, if the `container’ is a certain volume of space with no need to contain the contents due to near absence of gravity—you can grab a handful of water—then I suppose you look to determine what is being added to the contents of the `bubble’ to cause the tension to fail and the bubble to burst.