"You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been." - Maya Angelou
"The reason time exists is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - Albert Einstein
"At the beginning 'all things were together.' There was a 'vortext motion' at a force and speed 'of nothing found amoung humans." - Anaxagoras
"There is a thing confusedly formed, born before heaven and earth. Silent and void it stands alone and does not change...that which is naturally so."
"It existed before heaven and earth. How quiet it is! How spiritual it is! It stands alone and does not change...All life comes from it." - Lao Tzu
"I do not know it's name, and so I will call it Tao, the Way [or the Way of nature], and I rejoice in its power." - Lao Tzu
"It must be something eternally existing! Of all great things, surely Tao is the greatest." - Lao Tzu
"The Way is forever nameless...Only when it is cut there are names." - Lao Tzu
"The nameless was the beginning of heaven and earth." - Lao Tzu
In the Hot Big Bang Model, at t=0, the universe was in its initial state.
Less than 10^-10 seconds after the Big Bang, universal temperatures exceeded 10,000,000,000 degrees Kelvin. And all forces of nature were still unified into one single force.
Plato and Aristotle believed the universe was eternal and so always existed. So there would be no t=0.
Paradox of Motion. Zeno's Paradox of motion asks, how can something that is motionless, suddenly begin to move? So how can time start, if its initial state is frozen?
"I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, but the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attemple to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature." - Albert Einstein
"Because you see, it starts now. It didn’t begin in the past. There was no past. If the universe began in the past, when that happened it was now. But it is still now and the universe is still beginning now." - Alan Watts