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Originally Posted by austintorn@aol.com  Dip,
Time had no beginning either, unless there was a stillness to the ether, in which case there was not time since no movement yet. |
My four cents (sorry, inflation has been
crude lately):
Space only occurred after time had already started.
The set up is simple: the potential state had to create the condition on which materialization could begin. Indisputably, that took up time. Once materialization began, time simply continued.
The conditions of time and space belong first of all to the potential state, but time started ticking within the potential, while materialization belongs to our side of the equation.
Had the condition to create materialization failed, then time would have returned to the original condition again, just like space, of being just potential. Time is therefore more like the potential than space is like the potential; space had to go through quite an alteration, while time only needs to adhere to space where appropriate.
I believe the ancients already agreed upon this and therefore called seconds seconds and not firsts. The first 'second' belongs to the potential state. In ancient Greek mythology, Zeus won the battle with his father Chronos, the person we still honor with our word
chronology. Of course, when placing them in an order, a father comes before the son.