Years ago, I started trying to fathom how it all began, the order of 'unfolding'. That's why I've settled upon the notion of continua I express as where/when continua. Even the soul and spirit exist in a continua of some expression of space and time.
The 'first' continuum was point/moment. During the inflationary phase, the universe went from point/moment to linear/moment, linear/past, then linear/present, planar/present, etc. and eventually volume/future. But the expressions 'present' and 'future' I do not think of the same way traditional 'one variable of time' notions assert.
I best stop before the ridicule rains down, as it has in the past when I sought to share this 'different' cosmology.