The Great Paradox(es)

[CCoburn]

It seems the epitome of paradoxical... How everything we can see, and sense was a logical extension of nothing.

Aside from the paradoxical, I think what gets most people is the "nothing" terminology. These different aspects of the eternal construct don't appear to be subject to any common terminology in this contemporary day and age.

I might me referencing in some quasi-theological format something to the effect of "movement within the 'mind' of the primordial(or eternal)", and then I see something like "quantum fluctuations", but I don't necessarily equate the two at first because of the differences in the terminology used. Which is to say that different avenues of thought are likely to have alternate bundles of terminology.
 

Being relatively simple-minded, it chafes me to think that in a universe of "quantum fluctuations" the learned would decide that they were a "component" of "nothing."

This seems to go with both propositions one and two. QF are a pre-expansion phenomenon so this seems to me as occurring within a spatial negation but not a temporal one as I would presume that there could be no movement or change in the absence of time.

From a theological standpoint the above would place "time" as the primary dimension, and a creator god would exist in this 'root dimension' not requiring space for its existence but would actually create these other three secondary spatial dimensions.
 

Perhaps time is all about perception from the framework of an observer... and not something inherently woven into the machinery of the universe... but then that's a relativistic point of view, and might now be insufficient to explain anything....

Your getting into the duality of time here - the macro and microcosmic parts. Time experienced via 'internal' consciousness("perception"), as opposed to 'external' movement or change as it pertains to the cosmological.