User blog comment:TheSlicer/Restructuring the GMS/@comment-6788126-20110629162237/@comment-2026417-20110629172031

Time begins as soon as existence exists. Although that makes little sense, I can clarify: Time is the driving force of the universe. Without it, everything happens at once, but nothing happens. Everything would be a jumbled up mess of possible (and impossible) futures, along with multiple and strange pasts and presents without time, and everything would exist in less than a fraction of a nanosecond.

Sorry to go off topic, but the idea intrigued me.