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Full Idea
What need would have aroused it later or sooner, starting from nothing to come into being?
Gist of Idea
What could have triggered the beginning [of time and being]?
Source
Parmenides (fragments/reports [c.474 BCE]), quoted by Robin Le Poidevin - Travels in Four Dimensions 02 'Everything'
Book Ref
Le Poidevin,Robin: 'Travels in Four Dimensions' [OUP 2003], p.24
A Reaction
[Barnes 1982:178] This remains an excellent question. The last I heard was a 'quantum fluctuation', but that seems to be an event, which therefore needs time.
| 22918 | What could have triggered the beginning [of time and being]? [Parmenides] |
| 312 | Time came into existence with the heavens, so that there will be a time when they can be dissolved [Plato] |
| 1526 | Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated [Plato, by Aristotle] |
| 617 | It is hard to see how either time or movement could come into existence or be destroyed [Aristotle] |
| 22925 | The present is the past/future boundary, so the first moment of time was not present [Le Poidevin] |