Time begins when the photon particle begins; to measure time you must consider that time is a change; noted. There is nothing (no-thing) to change without matter being present. Time; then is the spin within a quantity of matter; observed and noted as having passed. There was no time before photons were created. If there were no matter; there would be no-thing to record or express the existence of what we; as humans, have named; as time.
Empty space has no-thing within it from which time can be created. Time requires stars-smoke and matter; in order to become an idea or reality; and matter requires the spin of its particles, or gravitation; in order to express and assemble those particles of pre-atomic smoke or dust; into atoms of matter; and consequent mass.
Light; photons of our visible spectrum of colors are the creators. Each of the different colors of photons have slightly different masses; and rates of spin; as well as diameters of spin; around their axis. It appears that.the mass determines the spin rate; and diameter of axis, and color as well as the angle of refraction of the particle.
The display of the “spectrum of colors” hides the existence of the photon particles; by the flow of the colors as expressed by the bow waves in front of the particles as they speed forward in time.
The bow waves of the photon particles are the result of the pre-atomic; and atomic; particles which are in the path of the photon particle. In space those pre-atomic dust motes are called dark matter.
Time did not exist before matter came into existence; the photon is the instigator of gravitational assembly, and the first particle of time; and matter; and photon spin is the instigator of spin induced gravitation. Take away all matter; including photon particles of light, and there is no time. No-things; to express change as having occurred; and there is no gravitation to create matter.
An empty universe knows no change; no time. There is no space-time; there is only matter-time..
The star-smoke pushed and pulled out of the star by the photonic bow waves; and the spin vortex of the photons exhaust; are the dark matter; pre-atomic dust particles which the spin assembles into atoms; and mass.
It is interesting to watch a radiometer; sitting on a window sill; with sunlight causing the spinning of the vanes; inside the vacuum of a globe. Photonic pressure is a beautiful fact; and easily observable.
My experiments; growing gold and or platinum arborescent crystals; using either a parabolic mirror and or a convergent lens and sunlight; and the gravitational pull of the Moon in the rising side of its monthly cycle; is also a beautiful example of photonic spin controlling the gravitational motion of atoms; of matter.