Big bangs (Roberts)

The big bang—that's not a little knot of dynamite, hanging in the middle of a huge empty cavern, exploding to fill it with stars. The cavern, its space, its time, was what was created by the big bang. Every time a consciousness comes into awareness and self-awareness, it's a conceptual big bang. Space and time structure the reality of things anew with each perceiving mind.

Adam Roberts, The Thing Itself