The Compression of Time

Several times when I have looked at my watch while driving and suddenly become aware that I would quite likely be late to my destination, I have noticed that I would begin to do things more quickly and sometimes increase my driving speed, as if to "compress" time (to slow time). Except when this might have caused me to get a speeding ticket, this increase in speed had the effect of making me feel better like I would still have the possibility of reaching my destination on time.
As I grew older, I certainly began to realize that this was not the best procedure. I not only would run the risk of getting a speeding ticket, but could greatly increase the chance of having an accident. Fortunately I never had an accident and although I have received a few speeding tickets, I eventually learned to control this method of reacting to the possibility of being late to a destination. The obvious correction is to leave earlier and have a plan to get there on time or a way to call ahead and make those at the destination aware of my problem.
Over the years I have thought about this reaction and had reached the conclusion that I was attempting to compress time or to increase the distance traveled in a given time and in my own small way getting around the everyday laws of physics. It was obviouse that I could never reach the speed of light, but the concept of Einstein that time slows down as we travel faster and faster seemed so similar to my instinctive approach to being late that I have wanted to explore the concept of "time compression" in a theoretical manner.
In theory, a "black hole" is a location in space whre such time distortion would occur. As something is pulled into the black hole past the point of no return "event horizon", time would in theory be moving at a slower rate. If we were to think about this more as a "compression" of time, then we could think about the other side of the event horizon as a sort of "decompression area of time" by comparisson.
If time can be considered as "compressionable", then it might be that time would also act in accordance with the laws of physics that act on gasses. As the universe was first being formed by the "Big Bang" on one side of an event horizon would be "Everything" and on the other side would be "Nothing". This would be the event horizon of the universe. On one side there would be compressed time and on the other side "no time". As the universe exploded, time itself would be uncompressed and begin to fill the void of "nothing".
In effect, time would have been expanding and as it expanded it would be decompressing. This process would have given the entire universe a property of a flow of time. In recent years we have discovered that the entire universe is expanding at an increasing rate. One of the major theories to explain this increasing expansion has been the idea that there is "dark matter" or "possible string theory" that would explain this increasing expansion rate.
If I were in my car traveling at the edge of the universe, outward from the center of the universe, with absolutely nothing in view ahead, I would very likely "step on the gas" and try to get to some destination as quickly as possible. The cop hiding behind the closest star behind me would be the "speed of light". Like most males, I would not stop for directions and would not turn around and go back.
The very process of decompression of time outward into nothingness could be a partial factor into the increasing expansion of the universe and here again I am considering that the rules of the road could be similar to the rules of physics in the universe.
In the words and music by Simon and Garfunkel "Slow down you move to fast now, got to make the morning last..." we are reminded to slow down. The questions about how the universe began and presently exists may have elements of truth revealed in our very instinctive behaviour to speed up when we are late. Still as intelligent beings on the Earth we should take time to enjoy life.