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 Reference
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.