You simply have to imagine spacetime, and the relativistic limits imposed by it, not quite existing yet! Easy peasy. As the Italian particle physicist Guido Tonelli has pointed out, it actually is possible to go faster than light. Like, at a whoosh far exceeding the speed of light. Something goes pop in precisely the right way, and out of that infinitesimally small pocket of instability, the entire universe bangs bigly into being. It just is, all at once, indeterminate and undisturbed. So even though it’s seething, bubbling, fluctuating, as foam tends to do, it’s not doing so in any kind of this-before-that temporal order. It’s barely there, and can’t even be said to occupy space, because there’s no such thing as space yet. It goes like this: In the beginning-the very, if not quite veriest, beginning-there’s something called quantum foam. The best theory physicists have for the birth of the universe makes no sense.
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