“All at once I thought of God’s questions to Job: “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Who hath laid the measures thereof?” And I thought, with awe, I am there, I have seen it. The frames, the fluttering frames, made me think of Planck and Einstein, and how quantality and relativity may stem from one birth. I felt I was experiencing the “pre-Planck” time of myself — that unimaginable time cosmologists speak of — in the 10^-45 seconds after the “Big Bang” — when space is still unstable, fluttering, quantal: that time of preparation which precedes the beginning of real time.”
—Oliver Sacks, A Leg to Stand On