I once caught a fish that grabbed a towel and dried itself off as soon as I got it out of the water.

As for your other question, Amos -- since space and time appear to be linked just as mass and energy are, did time exist before the Big Bang-o? If it did (and I'm talking Time, not just duration), was space created from time when the fuse hit the powder? Or are Space and Time and Mass and Energy all linked -- different aspects of the same thing, perhaps?