With the definitions on the previous page, we now have a platform to philosophy about the "Beginning of Time and Being", not through postulates, but by exclusion of what cannot be.

As infinite past cannot exist, we must talk about a "void" instead of a "before". This of course is beyond our imagination, because we need an environment to place anything in at all in. The void has no environment, neither space nor time, nor can it be an environment itself. Mind that "empty space" is not a void - "non-space", together with "non- time", is a void.

What ever was first, it suddenly was there and it didn't have a cause, because a void cannot be a cause. It seems we have an exception here on the rule "from nothing, comes nothing". We obviously need to get rid of the void, by imagining something that could exist without time. It cannot have had a size or volume, because there is no reference for it. It could not move, because speed is also a function of time and an absolute space would be needed to let it move in and relative to. For the same reason it could not be at rest either. What is it, that has no size and can neither be at rest, nor move?

Could it be energy? We don't know what energy is, so we can consider it. However, all forms of energy we know are dynamic, subjected to some function of time. Timeless energy then? We have the notion of potential energy, which seems to be static, but yet is dependent of the possibility to become dynamic - it has the potential to become dynamic, which makes it potential at all. A potential requires the existence of a source and a drain, between which the potential exists. A void could be a drain, so static energy could be a source - all what's needed to have a start of anything, would be (the flow of) time.

In the ancient Greek language, the word "atomos" actually means "indivisible", and in Latin the word "atomus" means "source of vast potential energy", so let's call the primordial "Beginning of Everything" the "pre-atom", that somehow became what today is the Universe. It was static, timeless energy and WAS as such a potential towards the void. The pre-atom was potential pure energy only. Being timeless, it had no past and no future; it was Eternity itself. As it had no size, we also can see the pre-atom as being omnipresent, overlaying an equally omnipresent void. We cannot imagine such a condition, but it follows from the logic, that I develop here.

At this stage, we cannot easily ignore the religious aspect of an eternal God Creator, who must have similar properties as the above described pre-atom. However, God is supposed to be a Supreme Intellect, which at least means that He can think. Thoughts are inevitably a function of time and as the pre-atom must have been timeless in order to be eternal, there cannot have been any thoughts and thus it was not God.

I have already pointed out that something that is eternal cannot exist in time, because an infinite past prohibits the idea of a future. Therefore, as the first time-quant arose, the pre-atom instantly ceased to exist, or rather, it never existed, because there is no past, no before. All the timeless potential energy of the pre-atom now must be of a dynamic nature as a function of time...pooring out into the void at the speed of light. The first space-quant arose together with the first time-quant; timespace was born.

However, there is another approach, by postulating that only the present moment exists. Instead of an for ever ongoing future, we then have an for ever ongoing past, being the a.m. void and no future exists, but in our perception. The world of our observations is the past and so is the present reality in which we live - we literally cannot believe our eyes, our senses, because all information comes to us through signals from the past, from a void. This approach eliminates the paradox of an infinite past, but there still cannot be an infinite speed and nothing of the previous changes, just that we no longer need a Beginning. The "infinite" past is as unreachable as an infinite future would be, both becoming finite if time would be finite and then also the present moment would become a void, when time comes to an end, ceases to exist. However, what we observe is not the present moment, not even our own body is observed there - the pain comes AFTER the injury.

Our whole observational world can be one big illusion and likely is that also. What we observe as 3d-space, likely is just the effect of 3d-time and "space" is just an illusion of our senses, in conjunction with the finite speed of light ......

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	THE BEGINNING OF TIME AND BEING
	With the definitions on the previous page, we now have a platform to philosophy about the "Beginning of Time and Being", not through postulates, but by exclusion of what cannot be. As infinite past cannot exist, we must talk about a "void" instead of a "before". This of course is beyond our imagination, because we need an environment to place anything in at all in. The void has no environment, neither space nor time, nor can it be an environment itself. Mind that "empty space" is not a void - "non-space", together with "non- time", is a void. What ever was first, it suddenly was there and it didn't have a cause, because a void cannot be a cause. It seems we have an exception here on the rule "from nothing, comes nothing". We obviously need to get rid of the void, by imagining something that could exist without time. It cannot have had a size or volume, because there is no reference for it. It could not move, because speed is also a function of time and an absolute space would be needed to let it move in and relative to. For the same reason it could not be at rest either. What is it, that has no size and can neither be at rest, nor move? Could it be energy? We don't know what energy is, so we can consider it. However, all forms of energy we know are dynamic, subjected to some function of time. Timeless energy then? We have the notion of potential energy, which seems to be static, but yet is dependent of the possibility to become dynamic - it has the potential to become dynamic, which makes it potential at all. A potential requires the existence of a source and a drain, between which the potential exists. A void could be a drain, so static energy could be a source - all what's needed to have a start of anything, would be (the flow of) time. In the ancient Greek language, the word "atomos" actually means "indivisible", and in Latin the word "atomus" means "source of vast potential energy", so let's call the primordial "Beginning of Everything" the "pre-atom", that somehow became what today is the Universe. It was static, timeless energy and WAS as such a potential towards the void. The pre-atom was potential pure energy only. Being timeless, it had no past and no future; it was Eternity itself. As it had no size, we also can see the pre-atom as being omnipresent, overlaying an equally omnipresent void. We cannot imagine such a condition, but it follows from the logic, that I develop here. At this stage, we cannot easily ignore the religious aspect of an eternal God Creator, who must have similar properties as the above described pre-atom. However, God is supposed to be a Supreme Intellect, which at least means that He can think. Thoughts are inevitably a function of time and as the pre-atom must have been timeless in order to be eternal, there cannot have been any thoughts and thus it was not God. I have already pointed out that something that is eternal cannot exist in time, because an infinite past prohibits the idea of a future. Therefore, as the first time-quant arose, the pre-atom instantly ceased to exist, or rather, it never existed, because there is no past, no before. All the timeless potential energy of the pre-atom now must be of a dynamic nature as a function of time...pooring out into the void at the speed of light. The first space-quant arose together with the first time-quant; timespace was born. However, there is another approach, by postulating that only the present moment exists. Instead of an for ever ongoing future, we then have an for ever ongoing past, being the a.m. void and no future exists, but in our perception. The world of our observations is the past and so is the present reality in which we live - we literally cannot believe our eyes, our senses, because all information comes to us through signals from the past, from a void. This approach eliminates the paradox of an infinite past, but there still cannot be an infinite speed and nothing of the previous changes, just that we no longer need a Beginning. The "infinite" past is as unreachable as an infinite future would be, both becoming finite if time would be finite and then also the present moment would become a void, when time comes to an end, ceases to exist. However, what we observe is not the present moment, not even our own body is observed there - the pain comes AFTER the injury. Our whole observational world can be one big illusion and likely is that also. What we observe as 3d-space, likely is just the effect of 3d-time and "space" is just an illusion of our senses, in conjunction with the finite speed of light ...... ******

THE BEGINNING OF TIME AND BEING

With the definitions on the previous page, we now have a platform to philosophy about the "Beginning of Time and Being", not through postulates, but by exclusion of what cannot be.