___I think Buckminster Fuller had very interesting insights along this line; I didn't see him referenced on your page.
___On the marbles in the bowl idea, it seems only to make sense if the spheres are rigid, ie. hard like glass. If you take these expanding spheres to have flexible boundries, then they will squeeze together into & filling the triple points & your space will be filled with regular polyhedra (dodecahedrons?)
___The overall view then is a foam of universes & this is indeed what recent computer maps of the visable universe reveal. It's foam all the way up (& down)
