The logical space of reason

On that fine spring morning when consciousness was first laid on nature's table there was nothing around but extended matter in space, yet now a non-spatial stuff simmered and bubbled.



That notable occurrence can be regarded as presenting an inverse space problem. For, on received views, it was at the moment of the big bang that space itself came into existence, there being nothing spatial antecedently to that. But how does space come from non-space? What kind of 'explosion' could create space ab initio?