Matzoh Balls: The Answer to the Expanding Universe

OK, so astrophysicists have been hard at work studying and trying to understand our universe.  In my lifetime, the popular scientific understanding of our universe has changed dramatically multiple times.  Now we know (theoretically) that the universe is not just continuing to expand from it's moment of creation but is actually expanding at an ever increasing rate.  "Dark Matter" has been theorized to handle issues of calculations involving the expanding universe and the amount of matter in it.  Amounts of baryonic matter (matter made up of protons, neutrons & electrons - you know -- 'normal' matter) don't add up properly in the various equations. There has to be more matter, so invisible dark matter must be present.  And things just don't seem to add up regarding the increasing rate of expansion of the universe - it would require more energy than is known to exist. Thus "Dark Energy" is theorized into the modern astrophysical landscape.

Well I'm certainly not an astrophysicist, but the other day I had an epiphany after eating matzoh balls.  I made a big batch of traditional matzoh ball soup (aka, "Jewish Penicillin") that would have made any Jewish grandmother proud.  Naturally I had to have a bowl right away and did so, including a couple of those potentially dangerous matzoh balls (often referred to as "matzoh bombs" by those in the know ;-)  Well if you've ever eaten this stuff, you know the rate of expansion of a matzoh ball in your stomach and the resulting mass is way more than that wee box of cracker crumbs can account for!  No, they don't double in size, they grow by at least an order of magnitude - totally beyond logic and reason.  The result is a matzoh stupor.

The point is, if astrophysicists would start studying the mysteries of matzoh ball soup, which they can experimentally replicate and document, they could well unlock the mystery of the expanding universe.  Is the universe that different from a matzoh ball?  I think not! Oy vey!

Shalom & blessings :-)