Time’s super-ball

Things do not always perform the way we expect and time combined with space definitely behaves strangely. It’s like a superball in that you have to accept its properties are real before you can begin to accept such a thing exists.

• SuperBalls were invented in 1964 by chemist Norman Stingley by compressing a synthetic rubber material under high pressure. It is an extremely elastic ball made of Zectron and has amazing properties. Dropped from shoulder level, Super Balls snap nearly all the way back; thrown down by an average adult, it can leap over a three-story building.

You exist not in space and time nor space-time but in a space-time-continuum . Neither space nor time exist without the motion implied by a continuumn since a non-expanding space remains dimensionless and time a stillborn concept. And there is no continuum from this marriage of space and time without the continuity of both.

Due to its existence in a continuum the universe comprises space impregnated with a single time stamp and time comprises the story of the universe.

The universe stretches from that moment the continuum began and lasts as long as the continuum lies unbroken. Just as the continuum began as a random act of chaos it will end in Chaos’ turmoil. The continuum, time and space are finite but Chaos is eternal.

You, the child of this continuum, are its witness; an unreliable witness prejudiced by your parentage.

You don’t see the universe of this instant but the legacy of time and space throughout the universe’s history.

Because of your origin whichever way you look the furthest point is the same, it is the moment; the physical point and instant where our universe began. And by the precise oddity given by the human view, the location of the Big Bang is hidden in irresolvable mystery; it is found in every direction of our sky.

As you look out into a line of space every point beyond it is continuous with that before. This must be so for expanding space must retain continuity. From you onwards, outwards until the very edge of time, continuity remains. But space grows smaller, tighter as you approach the start. Time is locked to space as it grows smaller and also as you approach that with which it all began. The furthest start is the beginning of time, a point stretched across the total of the sky.