Perhaps it requires a spot of theology, philosophy or mythology to get a thread going. How's this for a start?
THE BOLTZMANN DIVINITY
In the beginning was the Void, and the Void was without form or content. Thus was the Void utterly empty from all eternity. The Void did contain neither space nor time; nor was there any possibility of any matter or energy existing within the Void. The nature of the Void was total emptiness because there was no observer who could give reality to anything that the Void might otherwise have contained; and so it was, for the vastness of eternity.
In the fullness of eternity there appeared within the Void the Boltzmann Brain. Only for the most unimaginably minuscule instant did the Boltzmann Brain remain in existence in the Void, but that was sufficient for it to become an observer. As the only observer of the Void the Boltzmann Brian was, perforce, the typical observer. So it was that the observations of the Boltzmann Brain did become the reality of the Void.
In order that the Boltzmann Brain could be within the Void there had to be space for it to occupy, moreover, there had to be time during which it could occupy that space within the Void and thus make its observation. For this reason was the Void filled entirely with time and space, but as there was no observer, once the Boltzmann Brain had vanished whence it had come, there was no change within the Void throughout the vast expanse of time that followed, which has been designated as the first era.
That has nothing to do with the O P!
A bit like mythology and reality, then!
Cool, that should bring the philosophers out of hiding!
