Look both ways

It is not a new idea, but the young cosmologist put it nicely, saying, as I recorded: "Imagine if space-time was so contorted that it bent the entire universe and all of its light back on itself, so that looking forward way into the distance we might actually see the back of ourselves, or at least the back of our galaxy; and even, if I may be so crazy, if looking backwards in time, as we effectively do when looking deep into the universe, might eventually reveal what is coming towards us in time, if what will happen has actually happened..."

"Eh, I understood the first bit but you lost me with that very last bit," I said, sipping a glass of Punk IPA.

"I think I may have lost myself too," she said, sipping her white wine, "but it is fun to lose ourselves sometimes, is it not?"

I liked her, and lunch in a university restaurant was very fine, but I did leave wondering if, instead of being much more clever than me, she might actually be completely, utterly, incurably, stark-staring, cuckoo-calling mad; as I may be too, of course.