The Never Ending Pool

if everything is expanding in all directions, the orbits would become larger. in this case, however, time would seem longer, not shorter. did the big bang occur at the center of the universe, or at the edge of it? i dont know.

but i think i know what bob is getting at in his verse. a jet plane moves from one city to another. if that jet were time, it could not return to the original station, but would continue successively to new destinations. time takes us from one love affair to another, sometimes so fast that we can hardly even hold on to the memory of some of them. it is a shame that these love affairs cannot last, just as it is a shame that any given moment must immediatly lose its place as the present and take its place in the past. and the whole lot of life that we are given to live just goes by so god damned fast, and we cant hold on to even a speck if it.

as for memories, they are rarely shared. each person has their own recollection of a shared past. that is all that can be shared, that intangible moment that is lost in the very instant it is lived.

one more thing. if the big bang occurred at the edge of the universe, and is expanding laterally in one direction, then time is very much like a jet plane, and the earth is never in the same location, but moves laterally as well as circularly. if this is true, time is certainly lost, as we can never return to that physical position in the universe where we were at any given moment in the past. this might also explain why sensory things seem so different today than they did in the past. Out past is literally millions of miles away. we are at a completley different place in the universe than were were then.