At the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History is huge hunk of iron ore that had been magnetized after being struck by lightening. Since magnets, like electricity have positive and negative aspects, the rock reminded me there might be some more basic connection between the two forces than exposure to one force causing the other force.

Lightening occurs when banks of positive ions build up in one place, such as clouds, and negative ions build up nearby. When a certain point is reached, the ions come crashing together in a lightening bolt.

In the lab, when scientists have smashed atoms into particles, they have noticed an anomalie. Sometimes it appears that the same particle exists in more than one place at the same time. I sure would like to know more about those experiments because what if time, like electricity and magnetism, has a positive and negative component? Wouldn't it be possible that a crashing together of positive and negative time particles created the Big Bang?