Expansion and contraction of the universe may be seen as "the Breath of God" giving Life to Creation which is a function of absolute time. It acts like a life-giving Force, a momentum to "get manifestation going", our standard 4-dimensional spacetime domain. Spirit enters "from above" and when the Body of manifestation "is right". With the Spirit of Man comes relative time. It is an engineering task to re-construct Creation in Mind, and as It unfolds according to a Master Plan.

4-dimensional spacetime reduced to 3 dimensions gives us a model of the universe, the surface of a sphere. It is the Shell to the Sphere, its skin, which holds Creation as Memory within. Its radius is measured in absolute time. At τ = 0, we experience maximum universal expansion. Expansion has reached its ultimate goal. It is here, at the very top, from were we count. In the Absolute we turn around. To us in the relative, this is a long process. To us this is a steady state. By setting the instant {τ = 0} in the Absolute (at maximal opposition to Its Source) equal to the moment {t = 0 BC} in our relative space/time domain (with evolution and pollution and all the rest :) on the surface of our Shell and by choosing a point on it calling it earth, and with the term "BC", referring to the phenomena of "the Birth of Christ on earth", we declare:
 

The Shell is a function of absolute time. At big bang or "BB" for short, its explosive expansion is such as to find itself at rest prior to its return at a distance of 12 megaG from its Source, and where "1G" is the unit of measurement in "Memory Capacity" holding the Spirit of Man between t = 0 BC and t = 2,000 AD, to be known as the "First Generation of Man", as a reference. We state:
 

The Shell of manifestation, taken as the representation of spacetime since Hermann Minkowski's 4-dimensional geometry, now becomes a "Field in Consciousness", expanding and contracting with the universe. This action, however, is beyond our 4 dimensions of space and time. It testifies to the Reality of God's Son, and speaks for "Life Eternal". It adds a 5th dimension to our Model in Mind. Space and Consciousness both share the quality of  "unboundedness". In our model of Creation they are seen as "the 2 sides to the same coin", one referring to the physical, the other to the spiritual domain. In the state of Self-Consciousness, this unboundedness may be experienced in transcendence.