TIME’S ARCHERY

Time’s passage changes with velocity

and near a strong gravitational field.

Mass and speed show full reciprocity —

their equivalence now clearly revealed.

If we accept that the Big Bang occurred,

and matter was once infinitely dense,

this measure alone would prove it absurd

for time to pass. It just would not make sense.

Expansion happening at speed of light

again would have slowed time down to a halt,

and, if inflation’s real, then time just might

have gone into reverse, drawn by default.

Stretched on bowstring tied by Gordian knot,

We’re still not sure how time’s arrow was shot.