The Guy and the One Before.
They stand, face to face, somewhere on stage.
A Great Thinker appears. He speaks.
A GREAT THINKER
We shall examine today the problem of the ever-expanding universe.
The great thinker produces a balloon.
A GREAT THINKER (cont.)
Let us consider the universe as a balloon.
And we wander across it,
little ants each of us,
as the whole thing expands beneath and around us.
The great thinker blows the balloon a little more.
THE GREAT THINKER (cont.)
The universe is so vast,
that even though it expands beneath us
we cannot see where the edges reach out
where the boundaries push forward into
The Never Have Been Before.
But the space between things grows wider
and every point of the world
moves away from us
wherever we are
wherever we stand
no matter how fast we move
no matter how hard we try to catch up.
The distance between things is constantly expanding
in undetectable amounts
moment by moment
until the end of time.
THE GUY
That’s what happened.
THE ONE BEFORE
Between us?
THE GUY
Yes. It had to be what happened.
THE ONE BEFORE
Because there wasn’t anything else…
THE GUY
No betrayal…
THE ONE BEFORE
No argument…
THE GUY
No insurmountable obstacle…
THE ONE BEFORE
Just one day…
THE GUY
There was… distance.
THE GREAT THINKER
It is a great marvel
that a universe of things in motion
is contained by a thing, which, itself,
is also constantly in motion,
motion outward,
and that wherever we go
things that appear stationary
are anything but.
THE ONE BEFORE
I thought we were right where we wanted to be.
THE GUY
I know.
THE ONE BEFORE
Everything seemed so…
THE GUY
Fixed.
THE GREAT THINKER
There are no fixed points in an ever-expanding universe.
The balloon keeps growing
no matter what we do.
There is stillness.
Or so we think.
The universe expands and the space between everyone grows
and grows
and grows.
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...there have been friends that have slowly disappeared...friends that I've known for years...and without realizing it they. weren't. there. anymore. Certainly I miss them...but we lost touch and grew apart for a reason...people come and go in our lives...and just because we don't have the answers to the who what where when and why doesn't mean that the answers don't exist...somewhere...in the universe.
If the universe could be represented as a 100 foot long rope, with our galaxy at one end, and the edge of the universe, the nearest galaxy would be but 3.71/16th of an inch away from us. We sure are lonely here on planet earth.
Happy St. Patty!
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