h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I was wondering about space and the information I read concerning the expansion of the universe and the accelerating apart of objects in it.

When I dropped some ground cinnamon in a large bowl of water and observed that the finely ground cinnamon expanded apart very rapidly, I thought that perhaps space has a surface tension and the objects in it (stars & galaxies) are acting like the cinnamon and expanding outward trying to equalize surface tension.

The Young–Laplace equation relates the pressure difference to the shape of the surface, perhaps this can be applied to space surface curvature?

Just a thought.
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I’ve long thought of the same thing, it was whilst washing a greasy pan that allow the thought to materialise , it was as a result of the washing up liquid breaking the surface tension of the water that allow the grease on the surface to quickly disperse to the sides of the pan. I have spoken on my take on the origins of the universe to a select interested few and have met with quite amusement as most listeners rely on historical theories to explain this event. In short there was no big bang, no centralised event that exploded outwards, my take is that what existed before was uniform, expansive ,devoid of our known dimensions or time and that a fracture for want of a better word caused a collapse , broke its “surface tension” and what we see to day are the cooled condensates of its many variable states.