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objected, however, that the 165-6) replies:
generalization of the But a response of this
condition of temporal sort misses the point of
priority to all cases of the criticism. The point
causations is accidental and is not that the
problematic. (Ref: Craig, 1999; description of the Planck
Ibid, 2002) era is inconsistent with
Another formulation of classical (general relativistic)
the above problem is what concepts. The point is
Smith (1997b: 163) calls that the temporal
“The central problem of description of the
quantum gravity ontology”: relation of the Plank era
How is the imaginary time to the classical era is
of the Euclidean spacetime inconsistent with itself. It
connected to the real time is an implicit self-
of our Lorentzian spacetime? contradiction to assert
By analyzing possible that a four-dimensional
answers to the question, space existed earlier than
Smith shows that there is a the earliest time.
contradiction in such
models which use the Smith (1997b) himself
notion of imaginary time. has proposed a solution to
To those who object that his formulation of the
the criticism is based on the problem, which is highly
applying classical notions controversial. He probably
of space and time to the recognizing the above
Plank era, Smith (1997b: inconsistency in the model,
