It is as an explosion [maybe] is not

she said ‘I like the part where there are explosions but sometimes the other swan doesn’t become an explosion.’

He sat and thought about what is must be like not to explode although the other is.

There was a paperclip but he turned it into a fingernail cleaner and then put it on his desk next to the other fingernail cleaners. He made about three a day and threw them all out at the end of the day.

What is it like to be stretching infinitely while the other sits in the present and watches? Is this a ‘time warp?’ Is one explosion and one swan an expression of relativity?