Yeah, welcome to all analogies.  Sometimes, they cause people to form the wrong intuitions.  Hell, one can argue that Newtonian physics is itself a misleading analogy that leads to confusion, since people develop incorrect intuitions about, among other things, how time and simultaneity work.<p>Now, if you can come up with a better analogy, fantastic.  But the best science communicators in the world haven&#x27;t done any better, so I&#x27;m not holding out a lot of hope for success...