G. Lemaitre: "If this suggestion is correct, the beginning of the world happened a little before the beginning of space and time."

Lemaitre writes in his article in Nature May 9, 1931: "Now, in atomic processes, the notions of space and time are no more than statistical notions ; they fade out when applied to individual phenomena involving but a small number of quanta. If the world has begun with a single quantum, the notions of space and time would altogether fail to have any meaning at the beginning; they would only begin to have a sensible meaning when the original quantum had been divided into a sufficient number of quanta. If this suggestion is correct, the beginning of the world happened a little before the beginning of space and time."

That was the article in which he proposed an expanding universe.
But the interesting thing is this goes along with the idea that the fact that Nature violates Bell's Inequality does not violate Special Relativity. Rather [like I mentioned before this] that things simply do not have values of space and time until they interact with something else.


It is not that there are hidden variables. The Aspect Experiment cancels out all hidden variable theories. But I am not thinking of branes of String Theory either because these are themselves just higher dimensional strings. (You need them so an open string can attach itself to something,) Rather what I am thinking of is some sub-layer that  exists underneath space and time.